Quotes About Moderation

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.