Happiness Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True happiness springs from moderation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Collectors are happy people.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happy do not believe in miracles.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares, Must take our joys before they fade.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You were happy!” I exclaimed, as I returned quickly to the town, “‘as gay and contented as a man can be!’” God…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance. I smile at…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe