My Week on Twitter -- Jan 23

This week's most favored tweet

"Eventually you realize that the reason God didn't always answer your prayers is that He was answering your mom's prayers."


A close second and third

"May it be said of you that you relished the dance of life, and at its end, went out applauding the band."


"If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye."


Best of the rest

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


"It's hard to exchange thoughts with someone who just wants to show you their brain tattoos."


"All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information."


"We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage."


"Rather than awaken to an array of choices, I would rather awaken to a clear duty born of the choice I have made."


"There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries."


"I don't understand what it is to crave recognition. I like recognition. I crave chocolate."


"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be."


"We can reshape our past to account for who we are, or we can explore our past to discover who we are."


"'Every day I go into the world to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in."

~~ Robert Brault

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A Message

 Just to tell you that I have resumed tweeting a thought or two a day on Twitter and will use this blog to archive the thoughts on a once-a-week basis, probably every Monday.  I will archive only thoughts that are well-received on Twitter (those that are retweeted and favorited), so Twitter will serve the useful role of an editor, something I badly need.

A Happy New Year to all,
rb

Final Thoughts for 2011

"Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be."


"The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil."


"Most often, the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie."


"There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe."


"Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you."


"The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane."


"There is no tomorrow.  There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies."


"If the human race ever becomes civilized, it will be the story of how a species called man became woman."


"It is not easy, the choice between God and the devil, for it is presented to us as a choice between forgiveness and understanding."


"Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently."


~~ Robert Brault

Faith, Hope and Charity

"What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt."


"Of course I doubt.  I do not practice a certainty.  I practice a faith."


"If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list."


"Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith."


"Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise."


"Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow.  One does not require that it lead anywhere."


"If hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?"


"It is charity in the giver to require no thanks.  It is charity in the receiver to wish no revenge."


"Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity."


"The willingness to share does not make one charitable.  It makes one free."

~~ Robert Brault

Everything I Ever Said About Dogs

"Life is mostly a good reason to go for a walk with your dog."


"I would not wish to live a dog's life, except for the times when you show up to help and are told to go lie down."


"An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing."


"If dogs could talk, the world would lose its best listeners."


Sometimes my dog looks at me as if to say, "Did you know that petting an animal is a wonderful way to relieve stress?"


"Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?"


I almost can't bear the look in a dog's eyes that says, "I would gladly be your soulmate, if I only had a soul."


If dogs don't talk, how do they say to themselves, "I guess I'll go take a nap."


"After a scolding, a cat goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal."


"If you could combine a cat and a dog, you'd have man's best accomplice."


"There is no better actor than a dog pretending to be as sad and lonely as you are."


"My dog and I have enjoyed many a silence together, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off."


"If it is true that my dog has no hope for salvation, then which of us is the nobler friend?"


"If a dog defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a dog, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a dog."


~~ Robert Brault

A Twitter Treasure Trove

Since August I have been tweeting one or two thoughts a day on Twitter -- some new, some old, some revised.  Here is a collection of recent tweets.


"As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand."


"What to do with your one life?  The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second."


"The trouble with spending your time seeking wealth is that you never get wealthy enough to buy back the time."


"You know you're a family when blaming each other doesn't make any of you feel less guilty."


"There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings."


"The trouble with selfish motives is that they begin to look like principles, and you end up sending your kids to die for them."


"Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in his or her capacity as a human being."


"Though we have the children of our destiny, destiny knows exactly the ones we would have picked out of our own free will."


"If the human race ever becomes completely civilized,  it will be the story of how a species called man became woman."


"Meanwhile, the IRS is after me because I listed Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs as dependents."


"It's odd the way that people who don't feel honor-bound to do anything else feel honor-bound to get even."


"The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient."


~~ Robert Brault

Fun Thoughts on Marriage & Miscellaneous

"The trouble with crediting success to skill and hard work is that it doesn't account for a successful brother-in-law."


"It would be easier to make up with your in-laws if it weren't for the kissing requirement."


"Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids -- two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true."


"A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had."


"The top two reasons for long marriages are love and procrastination."


"One coincidence you note in married life is that there are exactly as many days in the week as there are different dishes to have for supper."


"In marriage, it's either a new reason for the same old argument or a new argument for the same old reason."


"Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon."


"One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause."


"Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie."


"One of Murphy's tricks is to get you to act decisively when a situation needs to be left alone."


"A domestic quarrel is never about something you did; it's about something you always do."


"The wedding is where two people become one.  The marriage is where they decide which one."


~~ Robert Brault