Who the heck is Robert Brault?

“A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”

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

“Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.”

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.”

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”

“I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.”

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”

“If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.”

“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”

“Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”

“Never act until you have clearly answered the question: What happens if I do nothing?”

“Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.”

“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.”

“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”

“Sometimes in tragedy we find out life's purpose. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”

“Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.”

“Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.”

“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.”

“The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going.”

“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.”

“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”

“To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.”

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”

“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”

“When you're going around in circles, it is not progress to report a sharp increase in circles completed.”

“Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie.”