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.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)