The greatest obstacle to joy is a fully paid-up joylessness.
You can look ahead to happiness, or you can look back on it, but it's so hard to notice it to your left or right.
We fancy that we would be happier in some far away place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind.
The key to happiness is pretty much the same as the key to worry and anxiety -- you must learn to make a big deal out of nothing.
"One thing you learn in a long marriage is not to assume someone is dead just because they're unresponsive."
You come to see that aging is not a graying of the hair or a wrinkling of the skin but, rather, a tiredness that comes over the eyes. Renewed youth is not a cosmetic to be applied to your cheek; it is a rebirth of interest and engagement that shines in your outlook.
Robert Brault
The human body is 60% water, and like water everywhere it is forever recycling. The teardrop that evaporates on your cheek falls again as a drop of rain nourishing the plant that another eats. As human beings we not only share the same sorrows, we may, in the end, cry the same tears.
Robert Brault
It is not a great work of art if it shows the work or, for that matter, reveals the art.
Anytime you hear the words, "The end justifies the means," you can be sure that something mean is about to be justified.
Robert Brault
"Ever wonder -- if you were drop-dead good-looking, and everyone you met actually dropped dead, would you ever get tired of it?"