QUOTE : … happiness is attained through moderation. <br />Many people associate being moderate with being boring, and sometimes it surely is. But for the great majority of people, moderation is essential to happiness, and moderation includes passion, excitement, and fun. Indeed a life without passion, excitement, and fun is not a moderate one; it is an ascetic one. <br />Every great philosophy, religious and secular, Eastern and Western, has stressed that a happy and good life must emphasize moderation in all things.