115 Quotes About Moderation

It is not for nothing that the person stands between heaven and hell. He has to live so as to do justice to both the spirit and the flesh and to honor the fragility of life where it reveals itself to him. This he should do as a pragmatist out of a respect for the deep ambiguity contained in all of existence, not as a petty profiteer: he will be part of one of the two halves of the world soon enough.

Every single thing has a balance and the moment we overdo that balance something has to give and we are punished by fate in one way or another

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’m 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.

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.

A society oblivious to moderation, in time causes its own downfall.

An obsession with physical health is a mental disease.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

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