Robert Breault Quotes

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.