#MainMessageForToday
Life is full of temptation. Temptation can cause us to make inappropriate choices or take things in excess, i.e. throw moderation out of the window.

From the song 'Too Much Of A Good Thing' by Alan Jackson:

Smiles in the morning as warm as sunshine,
Kisses when I lay down at night,
And 2 loving arms to console me,
I should be scared, it's so right.

But, too much of a good thing is a good thing,
Feelings like this can't be wrong,
And, too much of a good thing is a good thing,
And we've got a good thing going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezWYCXVXAE

"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
- Plato

"I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue."
- Anne Brontë

Is #ambition #covetousness?.....

"I want it all,
A little bit is never enough!"
- From the song 'I Want It All', High School Musical 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xxSRvl5VM

"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."
- Confucius

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them."
- Bill Watterson, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0025-watterson.htm

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
- Christopher Marlowe

"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."
- Menander

"How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of his various passions! He who should live soberly in all respects, who should never run into excesses of any kind, who should be always simple in his tastes, modest in his desires, would escape a large proportion of the tribulations of human life. It is the same with regard to spirit-life..."
- Allan Kardec, The Spirits' Book

"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess."
- Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."
- Terence

"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
- Terence

"Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
- Voltaire

#MainMessageForToday
Just about anything taken to excess is bad. A good thing can be destructive if taken to excess.

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." 
- George Harrison

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero