Robert Breault famous quotes
07-14-2025
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There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
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The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.
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To accept reality is only to encourage it.
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Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.
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I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
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Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
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All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
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Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?
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For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
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It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
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Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
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If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
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No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
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We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.
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The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
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Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
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There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
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You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
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Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
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In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.
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Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.
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Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
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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.
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Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.
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Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.
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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.
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Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
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If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
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In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
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What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
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In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
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If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
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Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
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God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
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Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
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We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
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On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.
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The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
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Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
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It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
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Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.
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Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.
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Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.
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Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.
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To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.
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Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.
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The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.
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In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
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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.
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It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
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As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
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I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
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A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
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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.
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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
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Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
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There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
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There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
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A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.
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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
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You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.
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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.
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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.
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The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.
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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
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Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
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What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
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If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
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To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
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Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
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Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
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There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.
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Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
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The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.
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It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.
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Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
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So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.
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Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.
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We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.
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To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
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The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
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Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
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You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.
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If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
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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.
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The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
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Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
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We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.
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In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.
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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.
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I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
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Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
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Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
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Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
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As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.
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If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.
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Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
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