Quotes by Johann von Goethe

Lifes objective is life itself.

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though twere his own.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Time itself is an element.