Jane Siberry Quotes

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

There is moderation in everything.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The best things are placed between extremes.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.