Abstemiousness And Gluttony Quotes

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
J. K. Galbraith

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin

Gluttony hinders chastity.
Pope Xystus I

Gluttony slays more than the sword.
English Proverb

Life

"Life offers us tickets to places which we have not
knowingly asked for."

--Maya Angelow

Simplicity

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to
learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous
activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives
more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in
modern lives is simplicity.

--Sogyal Rinpoche

Love Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-- Janos Arnay

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
-- Ibn Abbad

Victory Quote

When someone tells you to keep going, thay's encouraging When you tell
yourself, don't stop, that's powerful, but when God says, 'Persist until you win,'
your victory then becomes guaranteed.

-Keith D. Harrell

Self Examination

When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making,
it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.
--John Renmerde

Prisons and Paradise

We only do well the things we like doing.

Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932

Hard Work Quote

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Creativity

"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life."
- Brian Tracy

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."
- Norman Podhoretz

Reality Quote

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

-Garrison Keilor