Quotes from Robert Breault

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

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.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.