Quotes About Moderation

Moderation is all very well, but only in moderation.

Probably one should never feel such gaiety or such despair. Better to operate on an even keep like Friedan and Gloria and the others.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Among the Huguenots he learned to be gentle and courteous; to bear himself among his elders respectfully, but without fear or shyness; to consider that, while all things were of minor consequence in comparison to the right to worship God in freedom and purity, yet that a man should be fearless of death, ready to defend his rights, but with moderation and without pushing them to the injury of others; that he should be grave and decorous of speech, and yet of a gay and cheerful spirit.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Much of our lack of peace is the result of willingly exploiting ourselves by creating an overextended, imbalanced lifestyle organized around trying to accumulate what we often do not need and which is detrimental to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.

Would that there were an award for people who came to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

stomachs aren't supposed

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary

So if achieving balance is a lie, then what do you do? Counterbalance. Replace the word "balance" with "counterbalance" and what you experience makes sense. The things we presume to have balance are really just counterbalancing.

Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

Counterbalancing is not only about your sense of well-being, it's essential to your being well.

You must never go too long or too far without counterbalancing them so that they are all active areas of your life.

Pursuing a balanced life means never pursuing anything at the extremes.

You really don't have to change what you eat that much," she told me. "You just have to be careful not to eat too many concentrated sweets, fats, or very large portions of anything." Apparently, she had no idea whom she was talking to.