Finding the Middle Ground Quotes

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

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it's going good it's really good. When it's bad, it's really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.