Robert Breault Quotes

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

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

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

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

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

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

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

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.

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.

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

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.

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

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

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

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

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

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

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

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

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

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

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

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

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

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

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

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

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

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

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.