{"quotes":[{"text":"We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["balance","excess","inaction","moderation","patience","poison","procrastination","spirituality","success"],"id":15136,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["excess","giving","greed","need","scripture","sharing","stewardship"],"id":16019,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.","author":"Plato","tags":["excess","individual","liberty","slavery","state"],"id":18398,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["beef","confrontation","diet","excess","issues","negativity","network","opportunity","peace","positivity","quotes","struggles","unhealthy"],"id":18740,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["beauty","class-struggle","excess","french-revolution","grandeur","louis-xiv","paris","wastefulness"],"id":20568,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.","author":"Koren Zailckas","tags":["black-and-white","excess","excessiveness","extreme","extremes","hoard","lack-of-moderation","moderation","passionate-life","too-little","too-much","too-much-of-a-good-thing","worth"],"id":22165,"author_id":"Koren+Zailckas"},{"text":"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["excess","self-control","virtue"],"id":27375,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Never order food in excess of your body weight.","author":"Erma Bombeck","tags":["body","never","excess "],"id":35839,"author_id":"Erma+Bombeck"},{"text":"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.","author":"Plutarch","tags":["cowardice","excess","between "],"id":46871,"author_id":"Plutarch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}