Too Much Quotes

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  We think too much and feel too little.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Thinking, Wicked World

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Perfect, Soul, Weakness

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Humankind can't stand too much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Teaching, Reality, Humankind

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Happiness, Selfish, Love Yourself

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• We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

  Frank Ocean

  Sad, Rapper, Heartless

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• There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

  Michelle Gomez

  Good Things, Too Much Of A Good Thing

  "Doctor Who's Michelle Gomez Talks Missy's Resurrection, Her 'Friendship' With The Doctor, And Red Herrings". Interview with Scott Collura, za.ign.com. September 21, 2015.

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Memorable, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

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• We know too much and feel too little.

  Bertrand Russell

  Littles, Emotion, Feels

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.38, Routledge

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• Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

  Tom Watson

  Motivational, Thinking, Momentum

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Debt

  Attributed to Ronald Reagan in "Conservatives betrayed: how George W. Bush and other big government republicans hijacked the Conservative cause" by Richard A. Viguerie (p. 43),

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  If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Consistency, Mind

  'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

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• Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Progress, Looking Back

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• When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dark, Rude

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• All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Abuse, Criticism, Energy

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• We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Should, Draws

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• I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
  just be up front about it.

  Rihanna

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  "Rihanna Talks: This is My Story". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. August 1, 2011.

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