Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.


Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make

Summary

This quote outlines the nine requisites or qualities one needs for contentment in life. It emphasizes the importance of having good health and sufficient wealth, as well as the strength to face and overcome challenges. It highlights the need for grace and the ability to reflect on and change from past mistakes. Additionally, it mentions patience to persist until positive outcomes are achieved, the value of charity and seeing goodness in others, and the significance of love and being of assistance to others. Moreover, it underscores the significance of having faith in God and hope to alleviate worries about the future.

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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