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Life Quotes by Robert Breault

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A family photo that slides to the back of the frame shows how life feels like a moving picture. Robert Breault writes that each moment is preparation for what comes next, and that avoiding hard choices leads to a life we never truly wanted. He also notes that love can cut deep but also stitch us back together.

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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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It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

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Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

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I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

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People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

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I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

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Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

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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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Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't…

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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…

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Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

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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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What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

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As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

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Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

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I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents…

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When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's…

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All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

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The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

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I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

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How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

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Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

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Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

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I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

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

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Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

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The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

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Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

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Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

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Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

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Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

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Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

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Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

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Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

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To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

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

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Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

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

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Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

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In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

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You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet…

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.