All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Happiness”

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.”
“He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.”
“When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.”
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
“The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.”
“Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.”
“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 own.”
“The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.”
“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 is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.”
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
“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.”
“Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.”

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