Quotes from Robert Breault

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

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

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

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

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

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

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

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

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

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

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

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

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?