Buddha Moderation Quotes & Sayings

Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave - a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend. — Michel Houellebecq

Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened. — Gautama Buddha

Oh, he can bend even the theologians to his will," Michael said sadly. "Not necessarily," William replied. "We live in times when those learned in divine things have no fear of proclaiming the Pope a heretic. Those learned in divine things are in their way the voice of the Christian people. Not even the Pope can set himself against them now. — Umberto Eco

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them. — Stephen Richards

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. — Dick Van Dyke

You may have gotten into the habit of doubting that voice that was telling you quite clearly what was really going on. It is essential you get that back. — Anne Lamott

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. — Albert Einstein

Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands? — Swami Vivekananda

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly. — Frederick Lenz

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity. — Gautama Buddha

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak. — Mason Cooley

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility. — John Hawkes

If I was meant to be with you, I wouldn't have fallen in love with Marlon. — Rainbow Rowell

If you don't do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don't love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you concerning that. — Israelmore Ayivor

Do not settle for letting these waves settle, or the dust to collect in your veins. — Anis Mojgani