Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault - Page 3
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.
A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
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.
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.
The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.
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.
God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge
We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.
Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.
Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
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.
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.