Pastoral Resources

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.