Quotes About Moderation

Make haste slowly

Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

there's nothing wrong with connectivity, but if you don't balance it with regular doses of solitude, its benefits will diminish.

third option: accepting that these tools are not inherently evil, and that some of them might be quite vital to your success and happiness, but at the same time also accepting that the threshold for allowing a site regular access to your time and attention (not to mention personal data) should be much more stringent, and that most people should therefore be using many fewer such tools.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

you're wrong about quitting when you're ahead. It means being grateful. Stopping when you realize you have is enough.

You actually don't need much. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have it all.

The Eating Guidelines 1. Eat when you are hungry. 2. Eat sitting down in a calm environment. This does not include the car. 3. Eat without distractions. Distractions include radio, television, newspapers, books, intense or anxiety-producing conversations or music. 4. Eat what your body wants. 5. Eat until you are satisfied. 6. Eat (with the intention of being) in full view of others. 7. Eat with enjoyment, gusto, and pleasure.

But if it so happens that you find good food and drink, partake of them gladly and sufficiently but not to excess, for men of worth say that one should not live in order to eat, but one should eat in order to live, for no one should eat so much that he is too full, nor drink so much that he is drunk.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

According to Maimonides, one should always walk the King's Road, staying away from the extremes, neither surrendering completely to one's emotions nor rejecting them entirely.

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

Extremismos nunca são saudáveis.

There were times when a Rational could be too Rational, and chase down the tracks of every thought to the detriment of what was important.

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But I don't want more things than I need, either.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.