I Accept Reality...

"I accept reality, which is not to say I accept the current arrangement."


"There are sorrows in life that we can no more bear alone than we can cry on our own shoulder."


"It is not until you have a child you can't love enough that you understand why your parents loved you too much."


"Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time."


There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."


"If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer."


"There is nothing we want so much that gives us a bellyful faster than peace and quiet."


"We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine."


"Courage is always a brave face masking a fearful heart, for otherwise it would not be courage."


"The great question is whether Jesus will welcome the sinful believer and turn away the righteous skeptic, merely to please His base."


~~ Robert Brault

There Is A Language Of Love...

"There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive."


"I have nothing against truth except that it's such a blabbermouth."


"So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender."


"In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything."


"Life is not fair, hardest to admit when it's not fair in your favor."


"I count both kindness and truth as my friends, although there is only one I trust with a secret."


Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"


"The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie."


"You can derive self-esteem from your job, but if I were an employer, I'd kind of hope that self-esteem would be something you'd bring to your job."


~~ Robert Brault

When I Was A Young Man...

When I was a young man, I would sit by the sea, contemplating such questions as, "Who am I?"  Now I sit by the sea, contemplating such questions as, "Where am I?"


"You wonder why those of us created by God can't just get along with those of us whose ancestors crawled out of the sea."

~~ Robert Brault

Painting By Ken Devine

Take No Revenge...

"Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull."


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


~~ Robert Brault

Ken Devine, A Daily Painter's Journal -- 2012

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The Evidence Of Our Planet...

"The evidence of our planet is that every life form was given the choice of intelligence or perfection, and all but one chose perfection."


"There are few things beautiful to the eye that are not the more beautiful for being silent to the ear."  

~~ Robert Brault

Ken Devine, A Daily Painter's Journal -- 2012

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Evening, And Home I Go...

"Evening, and home I go, commuting from a world that won't listen to a world that has heard it a thousand times."


"If the vast empty universe is a mystery to us, think what a mystery this tiny outpost of hope and faith is to the universe."


"The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it."


"Now and then it's good to retrace our footsteps, to remind ourselves who made them."


"The odds are against anyone really making a difference, so perhaps you should not leave it to just anyone."


"You can sin in thought, word and deed, although the tendency is to sin in thought and deed whilst being saintly in word."


"If you're born with a poker face, play Poker.  But let's face it, some of us were born to play Fish."


"Never give up, because even when there's an excuse good enough, there are so many others that aren't."


"In the end, everyone favors the redistribution of wealth.  It's just that a few favor the way it's already been redistributed."


~~ Robert Brault

Truth, Lies & Probability

"Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?"


"Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar."


"There are truths so preposterous that they can only be revealed by people who think they are lying."


"There are truths I live by and lies that make it possible."


"Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie."


"A thing can be true although all who say they believe it are lying."


"Every lie is two lies -- the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it."


"Sometimes, to get people to accept an improbable truth, you must package it in a probable lie."


~~ Robert Brault

The Intangibles Of Life...

"The intangibles of life not only bring the greater happiness, they require less storage space."


"We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness."


"Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks."


"Charisma is not so much getting people to like you but getting people to like themselves when you're around."


"There resides in the human soul a sense of unworthiness, which, if you deny the existence of God, becomes the greater mystery."


"Although anthropologists agree that Neanderthal Man ceased to evolve, there's increasing evidence that he survived in the original."


"What you know for sure about someone qualified to speak for God is that you are equally qualified."


"It is always the good who judge themselves.  The wicked know enough to ask for a jury."


"We realize that we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else."


~~ Robert Brault