Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness Quotations

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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

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

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

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

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

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

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.

True happiness springs from moderation.

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.

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

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

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

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

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