Robert Brault

In the end there doesnt have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

History is mans best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Sometimes in a relationship we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories or you can use it to paint dreams.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

You will find that if you really try to be a father your child will meet you halfway.

In a household of toddlers and pets we discover this rule of thumb about happy families that they are least two thirds incontinent.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze.

Where the loser saw barriers the winner saw hurdles.

If God had wanted to be a big secret He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

We labor to make a house a home then every time were expecting visitors we rush to turn it back into a house.

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering they would show that members not present and subjects discussed were one and the same.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles one attracting friends the other repulsing relatives.

Charisma is not just saying hello. Its dropping what youre doing to say hello.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

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

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

There is always a perfectly good excuse always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from ones excuses.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

Mom " the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Perfection in art, as often in life, is better captured by eraser than pencil.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

A watched child never learns.

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

Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that werent true than the things that never came true because you didnt believe.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all the law is just so much grammar.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

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.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable it makes one free.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

A Parents love is whole, no matter how many times it’s divided.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

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

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser in case you thought optimism was dead.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you, there just has to be someone who wants to.

If you cant explain something in a few words try fewer.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.?

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes they just fit them into square cubicles.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

Charisma is the fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

Two things are owed to truthfulness lasting marriages and short friendships.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories ? or you can use it to paint dreams.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed it is plain old fashioned ingratitude.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

To a small child the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word boo.

Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it.