Robert breault quotes

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

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

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.

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

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

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

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

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

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

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

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

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

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

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

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

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

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

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

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

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

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

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

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

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

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

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

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?

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

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

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

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

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

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

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

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

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.