Quotes About Moderation

It just wasn't for me, and anyway, those people were a lot more far gone than I was. More in my father's league than mine. I just cut back a little. Less beer and liquor, more jogging. I was fine.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Enough to live, enough to merely be.

never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Every reasonable person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment.

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.

It will be just like Duncan Mac-Girdie's mare,' said Evan, 'if your ladyships please, he wanted to use her by degrees to live without meat, and just as he had put her on a straw a day the poor thing died!

Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

slow down your incessant demands for more

avoid the extremes, the excesses, and the extravagant, and know that all is unfolding perfectly, even if your thoughts tell you that it's imperfect.

Do the Tao Now At your next meal, practice portion control by asking yourself after several bites if you're still famished. If not, just stop and wait. If no hunger appears, call it complete. At this one meal, you'll have practiced the last sentence of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching: "Retire when the [eating] is done; this is the way of heaven.

practice self-control.

being satisfied with less rather than more results in great generosity.

Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Contented with little yet wishing for more

I bought some crackers and a piece of hoop cheese and an apple at a grocery store and sat on a nail keg by the stove and had a cheap yet nourishing lunch. You know what they say, "Enough is as good as a feast.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

How such views might steer clear of authoritarian dogmatism, head-in-the-sand private intuition, narrow professional specialization, or extravagantly broad but undependable

We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.