Robert Breault Quotes

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

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.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

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

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

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.

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

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.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

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

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

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

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.

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.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

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.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

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

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.

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

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Am I keeping my promises?

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

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

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

What happens if I do nothing?

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

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