Riddles

Translation of "Jeder Lebt Auf Seine Weise," by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone Lives In His Own Way

translation by W. Bledsoe


Everyone lives in his own way,
one loud, the other quiet.
People are so different
spirited and comfortable.
exuberant or quiet.

Each one how he wants it.
But through laughter and tears
we see how they come together.

Happy is he,
who never lost
in the battle of life,
the humor.

And may it pinch us sometimes somewhere,
one can not live without risk!

So be happy and laugh hard,
as humor is still not taxable!