moderation

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life__ many disappointments.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Everything in balance, everything in moderation _ try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully.I__ a writer & philosopher, of course I have the right to invent words! I try not to do it carelessly, I only write what sounds and feels right.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

From too much liberty, my Lucio, libertyAs surfeit is the father of much fast,So every scope of the immoderate useTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous_ but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson]An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its lucidity and moderation, its wit and wisdom. It may now seem old-fashioned, but during those confused alarms of struggle and fight between the ignorant armies of left and right, thousands of readers must have taken inspiration from Richard Robinson's rational defence of rationalism.It is a pity that it is now out of print, when there is still so much nonsense and so little sense in the world.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.