“Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.”

— Ruskin Bond

Source: A Book of Simple Living

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British Indian writer 1934

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“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

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“He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.”

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“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There’s no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there’s no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.”

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“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”

Jerome David Salinger book Nine Stories

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“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”

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“Don’t go to extremes. Don’t hate too much and don’t love too much. Try to live somewhere in the middle.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: Don’t go to extremes. Don’t hate too much and don’t love too much. Try to live somewhere in the middle. Hate destroys the hater. And if you love too much you get too involved and you cannot see too clearly. Love and hate are like night and day. They do exist together and you must accept them both, but you must also understand them and be in control of both emotions. It is peaceful in the middle. You won’t be hurt in the middle.

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“Booze, pot, too much sex, failure in one's private life, too much attrition, too much recognition, too little recognition. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

As quoted in The Sunday Herald http://web.archive.org/web/20071112125539/http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1824217.0.norman_mailer_1923_2007.php [Scotland] (11 November 2007)

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.”

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