Johann von Goethe

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

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

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

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

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.

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

Life's objective is life itself.

Let us live while we are alive!

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

A useless life is an early death.