The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but the long and winding road has the better soundtrack.
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Watercolor by Joan Brault |
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
The surest way to get the recognition you deserve is to be the principal supplier of it.
Robert Brault
I went to a party once where I never met the host, never knew if I was a guest or the entertainment, and had to leave while others were still arriving -- or so it seems when I look back on my life.
It is amazing the relationship you can build on just being two people willing to take a chance.
When things are bleak, and people say, "You must accept reality," I tell them, "Sorry, I already accepted reality back when things were brighter."
You can look at optimism and pessimism as two different outfits in your closet, and you decide each morning which one you're going to wear.
Happiness is that occasional moment when we forget what we deserve and let what we have be temporarily enough.
Life gives us, as a rule, the unhappiness we can live with and the happiness we can't live without.
You can regret and apologize, or you can wait until it's too late to apologize and regret that, too.
How fleeting life would be, were it not for the endless hours, and how endless, were it not for the fleeting years.
There's nothing like being understood to make you realize that what you really wanted was to be liked.
As a great sage once said to me, "Listen if you're an apple, don't try to be an orange. It can lead to a life of fruitlessness."
Of course, one answer to always having your worst fears realized is to start substituting action for fear.
Nothing makes you a good and decent person like having friends who stubbornly operate under that assumption.
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by Herckeim in Deviant Art |
~~ Robert Brault
"I love to return to a summer place where nothing over the years has changed, except that the walk to the jetty used to be shorter and the shadows on thesand slimmer."
~~ Robert Brault
One thing you can learn from your dog is when to go lie under the dining room table and await developments.
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"Sailboat In A Storm" ~~ Mia Hansen |