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

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

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

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

“Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.”
― Robert Brault

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

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

“In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.”
― Robert Brault

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

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

“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”
― Robert Brault

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

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

“Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.”
― Robert Brault

“I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.”
― Robert Brault

“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”
― Robert Brault

“The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.”
― Robert Brault

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

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

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

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

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

“The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company; pets we allow into our solitude.”
― Robert Brault

“Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.”
― Robert Brault

“Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.”
― Robert Brault

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos