Pleasant Living and Moderate Living
Thought of the Day:
“I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thinking Outside of the Box:
I don’t know who originally coined the phrase, “All things in moderation,” as there is a debate whether it was Aristotle or Socrates (if so, he should have tried that with hemlock.) But this quote reminded me of that phrase and of the part of the Bible in Ecclesiastes that talks about “to everything there is a season.” (Yes, rock fans, that is from the Bible – the Byrds did not make that one up!) RLS, above, seemed to be a believer in doing things pleasantly, which in a manner of thinking, is doing things moderately. I believe in that philosophy. Don’t work too much, don’t play too much, don’t argue too much, yet don’t acquiesce too much. Don’t parent too much, but don’t be too much of a friend. Think and act pleasantly; living in moderation, makes life more than just moderately better.
A Last Thought:
–The Serenity Prayer–
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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