Quotes About Moderation

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Elsewhere in the journal, he transcribes the rules laid down by Benjamin Franklin as a prescription for happiness and success: "Eat not to dullness," "Avoid trifling conversation," "Waste nothing," "Let all things have their place," "Use no hurtful deceit," "Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation," and so on.

She knew she could drink up to a certain point, but after that she never did anything interesting like dancing on the bar with her top off or snogging random strangers. She would merely fall over and then probably be sick.

Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like — just don't swallow it.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Instead of toggling between victory and defeat, we have to learn to live in the middle, in the gray area, where a real life can unfold on its own time.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.

This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

El salmón no tiene nada de malo, claro está, pero al igual que las golosinas, el yogur de fresa y el limpiaalfombras líquido, si se come en exceso no se disfruta.

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate."

Enough or not...it will have to do

When the store emptied, Frank gasped. "Goodness! You kids have to stop eating! If you're not careful, you're going to turn into grown-ups. We don't want that, do we?

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...