Goethe's 9 Requirements For a Happy Life |
Written by Mark Millard | |
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! According to Goethe, there are nine requirements for a happy, contented life: 1. Health enough to make work a pleasure2. Wealth enough to support your needs 3. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and foresake them 4. Grace enough to admit your sins and overcome them 5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished 6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor 7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others 8. Faith enough to make real the things of God 9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a 19th Century German poet, novelist, philosopher & scientist who offered many insights and encouragements towards fulfilment in life.
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