Jack London Quotes

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Those who manage to keep the offensive and defensive balance are more successful. We search for balance in order to keep a stable level, which is the most difficult thing to do.

People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

I believe that everything in moderation is best.

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

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.