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In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. -- Robert Breault
The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one. -- Robert Breault
Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. -- Robert Breault
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened. -- Robert Breault
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. -- Robert Breault
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. -- Robert Breault
It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. -- Robert Breault
So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. -- Robert Breault
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. -- Robert Breault
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny. -- Robert Breault
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. -- Robert Breault
There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. -- Robert Breault
As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet. -- Robert Breault
No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone. -- Robert Breault
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. -- Robert Breault
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them. -- Robert Breault
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them. -- Robert Breault
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself? -- Robert Breault
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you. -- Robert Breault
Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one. -- Robert Breault
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. -- Robert Breault
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. -- Robert Breault
A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk. -- Robert Breault
Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. -- Robert Breault
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. -- Robert Breault
To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. -- Robert Breault
Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work. -- Robert Breault
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. -- Robert Breault
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. -- Robert Breault
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. -- Robert Breault
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. -- Robert Breault
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. -- Robert Breault
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. -- Robert Breault
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. -- Robert Breault
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. -- Robert Breault
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. -- Robert Breault
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. -- Robert Breault
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. -- Robert Breault
Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello. -- Robert Breault
The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces. -- Robert Breault
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised. -- Robert Breault
Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to. -- Robert Breault
A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit. -- Robert Breault
Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there. -- Robert Breault
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. -- Robert Breault
Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. -- Robert Breault
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. -- Robert Breault
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. -- Robert Breault
We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror. -- Robert Breault
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, and vice-versa. -- Robert Breault
There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business. -- Robert Breault
Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did. -- Robert Breault
I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze. -- Robert Breault
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust. -- Robert Breault
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. -- Robert Breault
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. -- Robert Breault
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. -- Robert Breault
It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person. -- Robert Breault
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought -- Robert Breault
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. -- Robert Breault
Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. -- Robert Breault
In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. -- Robert Breault
To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either. -- Robert Breault
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. -- Robert Breault
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you. -- Robert Breault
Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it. -- Robert Breault
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. -- Robert Breault
We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. -- Robert Breault
You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them. -- Robert Breault
Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information. -- Robert Breault
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise. -- Robert Breault
Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: - love - friendship - understanding - appreciation - tolerance - a helping hand - a leg up - an answer -- Robert Breault
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. -- Robert Breault
The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always. -- Robert Breault
The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one. -- Robert Breault
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. -- Robert Breault
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. -- Robert Breault
The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't. -- Robert Breault
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. -- Robert Breault
I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too. -- Robert Breault
It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me. -- Robert Breault
The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze. -- Robert Breault
Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more. -- Robert Breault
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. -- Robert Breault
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. -- Robert Breault
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it. -- Robert Breault
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. -- Robert Breault
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. -- Robert Breault
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. -- Robert Breault
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. -- Robert Breault
You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. -- Robert Breault
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. -- Robert Breault
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. -- Robert Breault
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain. -- Robert Breault
The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. -- Robert Breault
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year. -- Robert Breault
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. -- Robert Breault
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. -- Robert Breault
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love. -- Robert Breault
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. -- Robert Breault
What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? -- Robert Breault
It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage. -- Robert Breault
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing. -- Robert Breault
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. -- Robert Breault
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all. -- Robert Breault
For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient. -- Robert Breault
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. -- Robert Breault
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? -- Robert Breault
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. -- Robert Breault
I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. -- Robert Breault
Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person." -- Robert Breault
Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. -- Robert Breault
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." -- Robert Breault
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. -- Robert Breault
Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? -- Robert Breault
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. -- Robert Breault
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. -- Robert Breault
Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld? -- Robert Breault
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. -- Robert Breault
You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. -- Robert Breault
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. -- Robert Breault
The road to success is wherever people need another road. -- Robert Breault
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. -- Robert Breault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. -- Robert Breault
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. -- Robert Breault
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. -- Robert Breault
One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed. -- Robert Breault
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. -- Robert Breault
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. -- Robert Breault
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. -- Robert Breault
We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else. -- Robert Breault
Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it. -- Robert Breault
A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. -- Robert Breault
One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. -- Robert Breault
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. -- Robert Breault
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. -- Robert Breault
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. -- Robert Breault
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. -- Robert Breault
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. -- Robert Breault
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. -- Robert Breault
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down. -- Robert Breault
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. -- Robert Breault
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault. -- Robert Breault
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream. -- Robert Breault
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places. -- Robert Breault
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. -- Robert Breault
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes. -- Robert Breault
Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret. -- Robert Breault
At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today? -- Robert Breault
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. -- Robert Breault
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. -- Robert Breault
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? -- Robert Breault
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. -- Robert Breault
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. -- Robert Breault
There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses. -- Robert Breault
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what - if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. -- Robert Breault
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. -- Robert Breault
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. -- Robert Breault
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. -- Robert Breault
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. -- Robert Breault
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen. -- Robert Breault
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. -- Robert Breault
Do what you must, And your friends will adjust. -- Robert Breault
Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. -- Robert Breault
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. -- Robert Breault
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. -- Robert Breault
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. -- Robert Breault
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. -- Robert Breault
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. -- Robert Breault
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. -- Robert Breault
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. -- Robert Breault
The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. -- Robert Breault
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true. -- Robert Breault
In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal. -- Robert Breault
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. -- Robert Breault
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams. -- Robert Breault
The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. -- Robert Breault
Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. -- Robert Breault
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. -- Robert Breault
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. -- Robert Breault
In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. -- Robert Breault
We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. -- Robert Breault
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential - and enemies to push us beyond it. -- Robert Breault
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams. -- Robert Breault
When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. -- Robert Breault
What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss. -- Robert Breault
To stretch the truth is to tell a lie. -- Robert Breault
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon. -- Robert Breault
Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles. -- Robert Breault
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's. -- Robert Breault
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. -- Robert Breault
Every day ask yourself, What would I do today if I were a better person? -- Robert Breault
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. -- Robert Breault
I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers. -- Robert Breault
Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in. -- Robert Breault
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. -- Robert Breault
The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope - or at least give it 48 hours. -- Robert Breault
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. -- Robert Breault
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. -- Robert Breault
No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. -- Robert Breault
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time. -- Robert Breault
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. -- Robert Breault
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. -- Robert Breault
What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. -- Robert Breault
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. -- Robert Breault
When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done. -- Robert Breault
Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. -- Robert Breault
For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. -- Robert Breault
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties. -- Robert Breault
A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge -- Robert Breault
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. -- Robert Breault
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. -- Robert Breault
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. -- Robert Breault
I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor. -- Robert Breault
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. -- Robert Breault
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation. -- Robert Breault
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter. -- Robert Breault
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder - does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped? -- Robert Breault
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. -- Robert Breault
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. -- Robert Breault
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. -- Robert Breault
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities. -- Robert Breault
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. -- Robert Breault
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. -- Robert Breault
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism. -- Robert Breault
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves. -- Robert Breault
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. -- Robert Breault
It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels. -- Robert Breault
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. -- Robert Breault
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. -- Robert Breault
Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. -- Robert Breault
In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. -- Robert Breault
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. -- Robert Breault
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. -- Robert Breault
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. -- Robert Breault
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? -- Robert Breault
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers. -- Robert Breault
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. -- Robert Breault
If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing. -- Robert Breault
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it -- Robert Breault
I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance. -- Robert Breault
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. -- Robert Breault
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. -- Robert Breault
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits. -- Robert Breault
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened. -- Robert Breault
Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?" -- Robert Breault
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. -- Robert Breault
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit. -- Robert Breault
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. -- Robert Breault
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. -- Robert Breault
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. -- Robert Breault
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. -- Robert Breault
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. -- Robert Breault
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. -- Robert Breault
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. -- Robert Breault
Be happy, and a reason will come along. -- Robert Breault
What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights. -- Robert Breault
The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything. -- Robert Breault
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity. -- Robert Breault
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? -- Robert Breault
Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. -- Robert Breault
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? -- Robert Breault
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. -- Robert Breault
I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance. -- Robert Breault
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. -- Robert Breault
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone. -- Robert Breault
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. -- Robert Breault
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings. -- Robert Breault
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. -- Robert Breault
Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it. -- Robert Breault
What good is love if you never ask anything of it? -- Robert Breault
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. -- Robert Breault
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success. -- Robert Breault
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man. -- Robert Breault
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? -- Robert Breault
Today's Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden -- Robert Breault
There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate. -- Robert Breault
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. -- Robert Breault
As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking. -- Robert Breault
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. -- Robert Breault
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements? -- Robert Breault
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. -- Robert Breault
It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss. -- Robert Breault
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. -- Robert Breault
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. -- Robert Breault
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. -- Robert Breault
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. -- Robert Breault
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. -- Robert Breault
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. -- Robert Breault
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. -- Robert Breault
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. -- Robert Breault
A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided. -- Robert Breault
I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. -- Robert Breault
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. -- Robert Breault
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise. -- Robert Breault
Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind. -- Robert Breault
To accept reality is only to encourage it. -- Robert Breault
You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it. -- Robert Breault
You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle. -- Robert Breault
Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles. -- Robert Breault
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. -- Robert Breault
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. -- Robert Breault
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. -- Robert Breault
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. -- Robert Breault
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. -- Robert Breault
There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling -- Robert Breault
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid. -- Robert Breault
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. -- Robert Breault
Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day. -- Robert Breault
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. -- Robert Breault
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." -- Robert Breault
As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started. -- Robert Breault
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. -- Robert Breault
A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did. -- Robert Breault
A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. -- Robert Breault
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. -- Robert Breault
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. -- Robert Breault
The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. -- Robert Breault
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. -- Robert Breault
I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support. -- Robert Breault
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. -- Robert Breault
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. -- Robert Breault
Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier. -- Robert Breault
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. -- Robert Breault
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness? -- Robert Breault
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. -- Robert Breault
We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet. -- Robert Breault
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. -- Robert Breault
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. -- Robert Breault
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. -- Robert Breault
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. -- Robert Breault
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. -- Robert Breault
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. -- Robert Breault
What happens if I do nothing? -- Robert Breault
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. -- Robert Breault
From an aunt, long ago: Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return. -- Robert Breault
If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. -- Robert Breault
Am I keeping my promises? -- Robert Breault
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. -- Robert Breault
Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. -- Robert Breault
Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind. -- Robert Breault
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at. -- Robert Breault
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. -- Robert Breault
Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are. -- Robert Breault
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen. -- Robert Breault
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. -- Robert Breault
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. -- Robert Breault
I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all. -- Robert Breault
One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. -- Robert Breault
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. -- Robert Breault
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless. -- Robert Breault
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. -- Robert Breault
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. -- Robert Breault
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault. -- Robert Breault
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. -- Robert Breault
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? -- Robert Breault
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. -- Robert Breault
Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere. -- Robert Breault
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation. -- Robert Breault
Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking. -- Robert Breault
Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. -- Robert Breault
You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. -- Robert Breault
Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers? -- Robert Breault
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. -- Robert Breault
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." -- Robert Breault
Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around. -- Robert Breault
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. -- Robert Breault
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. -- Robert Breault
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. -- Robert Breault
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. -- Robert Breault
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. -- Robert Breault
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. -- Robert Breault
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. -- Robert Breault
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. -- Robert Breault
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? -- Robert Breault
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. -- Robert Breault
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also. -- Robert Breault
Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream. -- Robert Breault
There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets. -- Robert Breault
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. -- Robert Breault
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. -- Robert Breault
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. -- Robert Breault
So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God. -- Robert Breault
Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. -- Robert Breault
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit. -- Robert Breault
As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell. -- Robert Breault
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. -- Robert Breault
There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. -- Robert Breault
How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. -- Robert Breault
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." -- Robert Breault
The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait. -- Robert Breault
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. -- Robert Breault
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. -- Robert Breault
Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. -- Robert Breault
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. -- Robert Breault
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. -- Robert Breault
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. -- Robert Breault
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. -- Robert Breault
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. -- Robert Breault
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. -- Robert Breault
Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. -- Robert Breault
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? -- Robert Breault
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. -- Robert Breault
The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. -- Robert Breault
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. -- Robert Breault
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer. -- Robert Breault
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. -- Robert Breault
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign? -- Robert Breault
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. -- Robert Breault
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. -- Robert Breault
There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days. -- Robert Breault
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. -- Robert Breault
The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. -- Robert Breault
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. -- Robert Breault
A watched child never learns. -- Robert Breault
To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you. -- Robert Breault
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. -- Robert Breault
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. -- Robert Breault
It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day. -- Robert Breault
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. -- Robert Breault
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. -- Robert Breault
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. -- Robert Breault
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? -- Robert Breault
I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. -- Robert Breault
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. -- Robert Breault
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. -- Robert Breault
If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan. -- Robert Breault
A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.' -- Robert Breault
Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. -- Robert Breault
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. -- Robert Breault
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. -- Robert Breault
Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is. -- Robert Breault
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. -- Robert Breault
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. -- Robert Breault
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. -- Robert Breault
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. -- Robert Breault
It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there. -- Robert Breault
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love. -- Robert Breault
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. -- Robert Breault
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. -- Robert Breault
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. -- Robert Breault
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions. -- Robert Breault
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had. -- Robert Breault
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. -- Robert Breault
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. -- Robert Breault
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget. -- Robert Breault
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. -- Robert Breault
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. -- Robert Breault
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. -- Robert Breault
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. -- Robert Breault
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. -- Robert Breault
It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly. -- Robert Breault
If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers. -- Robert Breault
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. -- Robert Breault
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom." -- Robert Breault
Ah, yes, my social life - a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. -- Robert Breault
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. -- Robert Breault
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them. -- Robert Breault
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. -- Robert Breault
Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. -- Robert Breault
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. -- Robert Breault
What are memories but dreams of a better past. -- Robert Breault
Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash? -- Robert Breault
We find things where we look for them. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Occasionally ask, What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? -- Robert Breault
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. -- Robert Breault
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling. -- Robert Breault
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. -- Robert Breault
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. -- Robert Breault
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. -- Robert Breault
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. -- Robert Breault
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. -- Robert Breault
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. -- Robert Breault
Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence - and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence? -- Robert Breault
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. -- Robert Breault
The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong. -- Robert Breault
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. -- Robert Breault
If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect? -- Robert Breault
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. -- Robert Breault
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. -- Robert Breault
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. -- Robert Breault
Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one. -- Robert Breault
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. -- Robert Breault
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. -- Robert Breault
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. -- Robert Breault
What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. -- Robert Breault
You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. -- Robert Breault
You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults. -- Robert Breault
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to. -- Robert Breault
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. -- Robert Breault
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. -- Robert Breault
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. -- Robert Breault
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. -- Robert Breault
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. -- Robert Breault
Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'. -- Robert Breault
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. -- Robert Breault
Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. -- Robert Breault
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. -- Robert Breault
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness. -- Robert Breault
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. -- Robert Breault
Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to. -- Robert Breault
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. -- Robert Breault
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. -- Robert Breault
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile. -- Robert Breault
You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. -- Robert Breault
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. -- Robert Breault
At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong. -- Robert Breault
Ah, the things we would do if we could - especially in the secure knowledge that we can't. -- Robert Breault
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. -- Robert Breault
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. -- Robert Breault
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. -- Robert Breault
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. -- Robert Breault
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things. -- Robert Breault
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. -- Robert Breault
The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves. -- Robert Breault
Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it. -- Robert Breault
The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. -- Robert Breault
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. -- Robert Breault
The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand. -- Robert Breault
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. -- Robert Breault
To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette. -- Robert Breault
To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget. -- Robert Breault
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses. -- Robert Breault
Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us. -- Robert Breault
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. -- Robert Breault
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. -- Robert Breault
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. -- Robert Breault
I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. -- Robert Breault
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. -- Robert Breault
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence. -- Robert Breault
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. -- Robert Breault
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. -- Robert Breault
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. -- Robert Breault
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. -- Robert Breault
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, in other words ... -- Robert Breault
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. -- Robert Breault
Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. -- Robert Breault
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do" -- Robert Breault
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. -- Robert Breault
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject. -- Robert Breault
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. -- Robert Breault
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject. -- Robert Breault
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. -- Robert Breault
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. -- Robert Breault
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. -- Robert Breault
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock. -- Robert Breault
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. -- Robert Breault
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. -- Robert Breault
Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling. -- Robert Breault
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. -- Robert Breault
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. -- Robert Breault
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. -- Robert Breault
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone. -- Robert Breault
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits -- Robert Breault
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. -- Robert Breault
In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who. -- Robert Breault
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. -- Robert Breault
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all. -- Robert Breault
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. -- Robert Breault
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. -- Robert Breault
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. -- Robert Breault
Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors. -- Robert Breault
Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it. -- Robert Breault
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. -- Robert Breault
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. -- Robert Breault
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. -- Robert Breault
Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. -- Robert Breault
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. -- Robert Breault
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. -- Robert Breault
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality. -- Robert Breault
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. -- Robert Breault
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. -- Robert Breault
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. -- Robert Breault
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. -- Robert Breault
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class. -- Robert Breault
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission. -- Robert Breault
If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job. -- Robert Breault
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. -- Robert Breault
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. -- Robert Breault
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed -- Robert Breault
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. -- Robert Breault
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. -- Robert Breault
A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo. -- Robert Breault
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. -- Robert Breault
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. -- Robert Breault
The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. -- Robert Breault
Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate. -- Robert Breault
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy. -- Robert Breault
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. -- Robert Breault
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. -- Robert Breault
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. -- Robert Breault
When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. -- Robert Breault
It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you. -- Robert Breault
Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu. -- Robert Breault
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine. -- Robert Breault
You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders. -- Robert Breault
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. -- Robert Breault
There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy. -- Robert Breault
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. -- Robert Breault
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. -- Robert Breault
We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. -- Robert Breault
If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME. -- Robert Breault
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. -- Robert Breault
Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. -- Robert Breault
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. -- Robert Breault
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. -- Robert Breault
Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose. -- Robert Breault
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? -- Robert Breault
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. -- Robert Breault
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. -- Robert Breault
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. -- Robert Breault
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. -- Robert Breault
There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated. -- Robert Breault
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. -- Robert Breault
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. -- Robert Breault
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. -- Robert Breault
Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. -- Robert Breault
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. -- Robert Breault
It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. -- Robert Breault
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. -- Robert Breault
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. -- Robert Breault
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. -- Robert Breault
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. -- Robert Breault
Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified. -- Robert Breault
I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet. -- Robert Breault
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. -- Robert Breault
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. -- Robert Breault
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. -- Robert Breault
Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words So far. -- Robert Breault
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. -- Robert Breault
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. -- Robert Breault
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. -- Robert Breault
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. -- Robert Breault
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. -- Robert Breault
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. -- Robert Breault
The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment. -- Robert Breault
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. -- Robert Breault
As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom. -- Robert Breault
There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were. -- Robert Breault
It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. -- Robert Breault
I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. -- Robert Breault
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time. -- Robert Breault
God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be. -- Robert Breault
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. -- Robert Breault
There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough. -- Robert Breault
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. -- Robert Breault
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. -- Robert Breault
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. -- Robert Breault
If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. -- Robert Breault
Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. -- Robert Breault
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. -- Robert Breault
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. -- Robert Breault
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. -- Robert Breault
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. -- Robert Breault
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. -- Robert Breault
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. -- Robert Breault
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. -- Robert Breault
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. -- Robert Breault
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. -- Robert Breault
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor. -- Robert Breault
Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. -- Robert Breault
Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie. -- Robert Breault
Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. -- Robert Breault
There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards. -- Robert Breault
Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. -- Robert Breault
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Breault
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies. -- Robert Breault
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? -- Robert Breault
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? -- Robert Breault
You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could. -- Robert Breault
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. -- Robert Breault
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. -- Robert Breault
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. -- Robert Breault
The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do. -- Robert Breault
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. -- Robert Breault
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders. -- Robert Breault
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" -- Robert Breault
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. -- Robert Breault
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. -- Robert Breault
Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks. -- Robert Breault