Quotes about Moderation
So don't study and swot too much, for that makes one sterile. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don't take art or love too seriously- there is very little one can do about it
- Vincent Van Gogh
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
- Virginia Woolf
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
- St. Augustine
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
- Aristotle
Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.
- CS Lewis
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
- Barbara Johnson
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
- Calvin Coolidge
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it.
- Donald Miller
The curtailing of one's desires is the beginning of wisdom; their entire mastery its consumption.
- James Allen
Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.
- Lysa TerKeurst