He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
