#temper

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#lost #temper #truth

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ↗

— Louis XIV

#i #king #lose #should #temper

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#conservatism #conservative #i #kind #person

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#get #i #lose #scary #temper

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. ↗

— Antisthenes

#dearly #enemy #friend #his #lost

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness #function #heart #regardless #temperature

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#course #first #hors #i #like

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#changes #comes #temperature #written #you

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin