Robert Breault Quotes

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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.
• Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
• If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
• In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
• I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach…
• I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
• What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
• In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
• What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
• If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
• Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
• God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
• Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
• You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
• There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
• Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?
• An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
• One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
• Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

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