Robert Breault Quotes

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

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

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.

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

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

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

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

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

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

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.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

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.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

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.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

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

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

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

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

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.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

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.

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.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

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.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

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

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

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