Robert Breault

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Inspirational
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As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Waiting
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You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Life
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The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Friday
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Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Mean
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In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Love
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If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Family
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Be happy, and a reason will come along.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Happiness
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Optimistic
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I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Taken
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To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Success
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Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Wise
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Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Discovery
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Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Trying
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Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Believe
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Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Hope
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The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Happiness
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Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
- Robert Breault
Collection: Perspective
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Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?
- Robert Breault
Collection: Goal
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Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Responsibility
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It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Needs
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There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Funny
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The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Honesty
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We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Wise
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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Years
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The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Order
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Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Relationship
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As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Relationship
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The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Memories
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To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Inspirational
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We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Happiness
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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Positive
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No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Self
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On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Artist
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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?
- Robert Breault
Collection: Philosophical
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Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
- Robert Breault
Collection: Perseverance
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Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Wise
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You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Inspirational Life
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Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Believe
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If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Compassion
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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.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Tired
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Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Dream
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Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Friendship
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No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Community
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What are memories but dreams of a better past.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Dream
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In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."
- Robert Breault
Collection: Children
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Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Love
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The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Funny Relationship
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A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."
- Robert Breault
Collection: Sister