Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault - Page 4

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

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.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

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

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

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

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

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

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

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

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

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

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

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

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.

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.

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

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

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

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

I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.

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

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

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

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

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.