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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Happiness

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Uplifting, Smart

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Life, Happiness

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Teaching, Use

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Instruction

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Giving, Spirit

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Happiness, Men

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happiness, Quality

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happiness, Vexation

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Giving, Friendly

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Art, Learning

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Character, Men

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Two, People

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Cheerful, Social

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Laughter, Men

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Self, Trying

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Thinking, Equanimity

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Time, Children

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Inner Peace, Strive

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Spring, Moderation

"When did moderate become a political dirty word?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2012.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Joy, Lasts

"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 5. 9, April 6, 1779.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Running, Laughter

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Perfect, Way

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