Excessiveness Quotes

• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Opposites

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• Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

  Plato

  Plato, Learning, Ignorance

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Artist, Laughing

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Business, Equality, Men

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.

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• Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

  Brian Weiss

  Simplicity, Action, Tendencies

  Brian L. Weiss (2012). “Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Yo”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Buddhist, Cutting, Thinking

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, Women

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

  Lilian Katz

  Education, Children, Self Esteem

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• When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give up pride and self-delusion; (3) Practice loving kindness; (4) Give up anger, hatred and vindictiveness; (5) Practice generosity; (6) Avoid greed and stealing in its different aspects; (7) Practice honesty; (8) Avoid maliciousness and exploiting lies; (9)Practice moderation; (10) Avoid excessiveness; (11) Do not allow yourself to be enslaved by your lower nature

  Choa Kok Sui

  Kindness, Giving Up, Honesty

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• A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

  Harvey Cushing

  Life, Greatness, Elements

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• Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

  Lucinda Williams

  Trying, Statements

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• I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food.

  Blaize Clement

  Amish

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• There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy, Being Jealous

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• You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.

  Debra Messing

  Fun, Priorities, Hollywood

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Love Is, Two

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