Pastoral Resources

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

I was born in very sorry circumstances.

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.