Quotes About Moderation

It's important to stay normal and live in the real world. I know this is where you find happiness.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

the goal is not to get rid of technology, but to limit its use "to restore a more integrated life, where you have the physical, the social, the mental, and the aesthetic aspects of life blending as seamlessly as possible.

ama la comunidad, pero no la idolatres».

simplicity without oversimplification.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Trop, c'est personne.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Cuando una sola copa es demasiado, las demás nunca son suficiente. Nunca.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

one drink did not a drunk make

What more did I want, after all, than my daily bread and some time to myself? Happiness in short.

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

One piece of cake in your life is better than never having any.

discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.

You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

Respect for others requires a complicated calculation in which one party agrees to moderate their own desires, to consider the longer-term consequences of their own behavior, to think about something other than the thing right in front of them.

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

psychologists Barry Schwartz and Adam Grant argue, in a brilliant paper, that, in fact, nearly everything of consequence follows the inverted U: "Across many domains of psychology, one finds that X increases Y to a point, and then it decreases Y.…There is no such thing as an unmitigated good. All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.