Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

Cut a balance: eat well and then have your sugar fix. Everything in moderation.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year - birthday, anniversary, holidays - that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal - it's not a Thanksgiving day, and it's not a Thanksgiving week.

Will I still get a slice of pizza? Will I drink a beer or two? Absolutely. You still have to live, but I try to do things in moderation.

I don't believe in depriving myself; it's an unhealthy state of mind.

I always say eat everything, but eat it in moderation. I don't like to inhibit anyone.