Nine Requisites for Contented Living

Nine Requisites for Contented Living by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   

There are nine requisites for contented living:

HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;

WEALTH enough to support your needs;

STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them;

GRACE enough to confess your sins and forsake them;

PATIENCE enough to toil until good is accomplished;

GENEROSITY enough to effect some good for 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.

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