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Happiness Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
- A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
- Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
- A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
- Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
- 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…
- The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
- True happiness springs from moderation.
- Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
- Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
- The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
- He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- 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 greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
- 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…
- Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...…
- 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…
- Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated…
- It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
- 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…
- The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
- 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.
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