Top 15 Robert Brault Quotes

American freelance writer and aphorist

Robert Brault is an American freelance writer and aphorist, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1938. Contributing to U.S. magazines and newspapers since 1961, he became best known for his short, epigrammatic observations, which are quoted on thousands of websites daily and have appeared everywhere from Reader's Digest to the CBS series Criminal Minds. In 2014 he gathered work from his long-running blog "A Robert Brault Reader" into his first collection, "Round Up the Usual Subjects: Thoughts on Just About Everything."

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

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

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

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