Robert Breault Quotes

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

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

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

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

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

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

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.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

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

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

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

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.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

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

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

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

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.