Quotes About Moderation

La dignité de la vérité se perd dans l'excès de ses protestations

It learned you can't love anything too much in this world.

How many times has my mother said, 'Don't eat so much, Chris, your eyes are bigger than your stomach?'" "A million times." "Two million. Well, paraphrase it, Ralph. Change it to 'Don't see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.' I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can't give it.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

To summarize, just because you can overload methods doesn't mean you should.

and decide you really do want a hot fudge sundae! Go ahead and eat it. It is continual excess that causes trouble—not occasional liberties. God created a wide variety of foods for us to eat. Every good food God made, you can eat.

We are wise to use moderation in all things, meaning to allow ourselves just enough but not too much of anything. This helps us live balanced lives and keeps the doors of our lives closed to the enemy.

Sometimes when people feel strongly about something, that is all they preach about. That is wrong. There needs to be a balance. We need to use common sense even in our spiritual life. In

Start slow and taper off.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

desear lo que hay que desear en cantidades manejables y rechazar aquello que nos apegue.

La autoobservación es uno de los procesos mentales más importantes para el crecimiento humano, pero si nos excedemos en su uso, colocándolo al servicio de esquemas obsesivos y/o perfeccionistas93, la enfermedad psicológica puede prosperar fácilmente.

Hay personas tan prudentes que no comen, y otras tan sumisas que piden permiso para hacerlo. Ambas mueren por inanición. La moderación es un atributo admirado por casi todas las culturas y requisito fundamental para garantizar la convivencia y salvaguardar la integridad psicológica de la gente, pero si se hace de ella un supervalor se comienza a transitar peligrosamente por los límites de la falsedad y el bloqueo emocional.

Por ejemplo, el valor de la perseverancia requiere un límite para que no se convierta en fanatismo: "aprender a perder".

Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo. LEÓN TOLSTÓI

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

Sometimes the Internet tells you more than you want to know.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Which is better, to cover the earth with a carpet or to put on shoes?

Tómate más tiempo y abarca menos terreno.» THOMAS MERTON

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.