Robert Breault Quotes About Life
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Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
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Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
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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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Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
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The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.
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Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
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There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.
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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 wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'
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It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
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Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
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Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
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In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.
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Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
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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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Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
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I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.
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Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
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Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
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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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More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
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Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
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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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My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
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When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
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You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
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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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I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
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Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
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You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.
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