Robert Breault Quotes

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

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.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

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

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.

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.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

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

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

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

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.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Am I keeping my promises?

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

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

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.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.

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.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Ah, the things we would do if we could - especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

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.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

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

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.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

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

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

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

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

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

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

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

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

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

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

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

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

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

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

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

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

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

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

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

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

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

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

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

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.

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

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

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

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

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

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.