Robert Breault Quotes

#1. Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

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#2. It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

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#3. We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

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#4. What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

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#5. Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

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#6. Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

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#7. If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

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#8. Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

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#9. We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

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#10. Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

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

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

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#13. In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

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#14. U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

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#15. Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

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

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#17. Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

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#18. Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

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#19. 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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#20. How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

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#21. You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

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#22. The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

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

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

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#25. A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

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#26. We find things where we look for them.

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#27. Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

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

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#29. Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

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#30. I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

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#31. Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

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#32. In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

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#33. You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

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#34. Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

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#35. The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

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#36. We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

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#37. Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

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#38. If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

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#39. The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

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#40. When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

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

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#42. It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

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#43. Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

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#44. What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

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#45. Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what - if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

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#46. If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

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#47. If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

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#48. God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

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#49. 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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#50. What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

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#51. An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

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#52. If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

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#53. The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

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#54. A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

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#55. Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

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#56. I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

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#57. In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

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#58. You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

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#59. 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.

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#60. I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

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#61. I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

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#62. What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

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#63. Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

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#64. Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

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#65. You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

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#66. The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.

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#67. Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

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#68. An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

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#69. 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.

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#70. We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

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#71. The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

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#72. My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

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#73. You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

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#74. Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

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#75. Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

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#76. A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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#77. I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

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#78. The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

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#79. Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

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#80. As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

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#81. There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

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#82. Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

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

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#84. Am I keeping my promises?

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#85. Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

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#86. An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

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#87. As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

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#88. If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

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#89. There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

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#90. It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

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

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#92. To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

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#93. There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

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#94. Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

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#95. It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

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#99. Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

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#100. 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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