Quotes About Moderation

The goal of this education is to aid the reader in striking a balance between two extremes: cultural anorexia (rejecting all moviegoing because of any negative aspects) and cultural gluttony (consuming too many movies without discretion).

A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvelously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress in the past.

Indeed, if moderate, predictable and patterned, it is stress that makes a system stronger and more functionally capable.

If the challenge is going to build resilience, it has to be moderate—just right. Finding the "just right" is a major issue with children who have had trauma. Remember, they frequently live in a persistent state of fear. And fear shuts down parts of the cortex—the thinking part of the brain. In a classroom, what may seem to be a moderate, developmentally appropriate challenge for many children may be an overwhelming demand on a child with a sensitized stress response

Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress

Balance is the core of health.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

If you would not spill the wine, do not fill the glass too full. If you wish your blade to hold it's edge, do not try to make it over-keen.

Stern social measures had to be adopted to keep entire populations from disintegrating in an orgy of plenty.

you'll have to be willing to embrace simplicity—while always resisting oversimplification.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

A jug fills drop by drop The tongue is like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

Ain't one limb enough?

Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.

Never drink before sunset; Never drink more than 3 days in a row.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay. One should treat a guest well as long as he is in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it.

I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.