Quotes, Poetry, Sayings, Wisdom, Aphorisms, Virtues, The Good Life (original) (raw)
Balance
Middle Way, Leveling, Stabilizing, Weighing, Moderation, Blending
Quotations, Sayings, Aphorisms, Clich�s, Quips, Quotes, Wisdom, Poetry
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
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How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons
"Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."
- Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, 1979
"Enough is as good as a feast."
- English Proverb
"Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance."
- Epicurus
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
- Confucius, Analects
"Joy and Temperance and Repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Last revised, modified, improved, reformatted, or updated on October 24, 2019.
First posted on the Internet on February 6, 2015.
Green Way Research, Vancouver, Washington, 2017-