Quotes About Moderation

Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Laurence Chaderton, the moderate Puritan leader, once paused after two hours of a Cambridge sermon. The entire congregation stood up and shouted, 'For God's sake go on!' He gave them another hour.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.

Neither anarchy, nor tyranny, my people. Worship the Mean, I urge you, shore it up with reverence and never banish terror from the gates, not outright.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. The

Be content with your lot.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us. Not everything which hurts may be bad.

Cele mai atr?g?toare femei nu sunt cele care ne dau voie s? le s?rut?m imediat (devenim repede nerecunosc?tori) ?i nici cele care nu ne las? deloc s? le s?rut?m (le uit?m repede), ci cele care ne duc de nas aceste extreme.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (to live well is to live concealed)

Arjuna, to expand your mind, use intelligence to draw your mind away from sensuality, so that there is no self-obsession, aggression, arrogance, desire, anger, possessiveness, attraction or repulsion. You are content in solitude, consuming little, expressing little, connected with the world and aware.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 51 to 53 (paraphrased).

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

establish a world where the head is balanced with the heart, wealth with wisdom, and discipline with compassion. Come,

always stay balanced—neither too tight nor too loose—like the bow.

Wisdom is all about outgrowing hunger, be it physical, emotional, intellectual or social.