The Contented Life According to Goethe
Championing the bright side of human nature.
Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]
Goethe, possessing one of the greatest minds in all time, set forth these nine essentials to a full and contented life
- 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.
And if a tenth postulate could be added, it is -
- Time enough for your prayer and leisure. A lifetime to pass on a heritage you earned to the next generation and posterity.
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply." - Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of meters and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography. . Among his works are Faust (Tragedy play) and poems: Prometheus, Der Erlkönig, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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Acknowledgement: Jokes, Quotes and One-liners for Public Speakers, HV Prochnow and HV Prochnow Jr; Wikipedia
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