#excess

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it. ↗

— Terence

#excess #i #life #principle #thing

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#excess #key #nothing #theory

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#excess #art

For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner. ↗

— Cheryl Cory

#excess #eyeliner #makeup #opera #teenagers

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#excess #generosity #giving #less #money

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! ↗

— Mae West

#decadence #excess #indulgence #innuendo #over-indulgence

Never order food in excess of your body weight. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#body #excess #never #order #weight

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers