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Happy Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
- When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
- What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
- A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
- Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- Only the soul that loves is happy
- A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
- Collectors are happy people.
- 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.
- We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him…
- Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is…
- My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I…
- In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could…
- Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
- Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.…
- Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is…
- Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit…
- Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
- When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.
More Happy Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. — Fred Armisen
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine