Robert Breault Quotes

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

What happens if I do nothing?

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.