Quotes About Moderation

Have something that you enjoy, that satisfies you. For me, that is dark chocolate, red wine, and cheese. But make room in your life for vegetables and whole grains to nourish your body.

Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.

This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.

I've always liked to keep trim, and fortunately, I don't put on weight easily.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.