Robert Breault Quotes

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• There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
• We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
• Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.
• Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
• There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.
• You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
• An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
• How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
• It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
• It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
• The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
• 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…
• To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
• The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.
• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
• If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
• If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
• In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
• There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love,…
• Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

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