Quote from Aristotle:
"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases or preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues...
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
Simimal Quotes:
A Course in Miracles
Those who are healed become the instruments of healing.
Aristotle
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Aristotle
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
Aristotle
We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs...
Aristotle
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence (aka Areté) then, is not an act, but a habit.
A Course in Miracles
The only way to heal is to be healed.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
