Robert Breault quotes
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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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