If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Happiness
Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Anger
A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Justice
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.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Service, Compassion, Regret, Remorse, Disappointment, Kindness, Honesty
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Vegetarianism
Life is short, God’s way of encouraging a bit of focus.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Carpe-diem
Try to discover
The road to success
And you’ll seek but never find,
But blaze your own path
And the road to success
Will trail right behind.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Success
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perseverance
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don’t define it before you achieve it.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Success
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Adversity
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Action
Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent—that it does not have to be recognized by others.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perseverance
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
Today’s Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Love
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Reality
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Integrity
The road to success is wherever people need another road.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Success
Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Self-Discovery
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Learning
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude, One Step at a Time, Happiness
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Confidence
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Attitude
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Confidence
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Opportunities
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Friendship
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Purpose, Meaning
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Perspective
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.
—Robert Brault
Topics: Family
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