Can anyone here read German?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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My son in law as become very interested in our heritage on both sides of the family. So much so that he is learning German. I would love to give him this stein I found on Amazon for a Christmas gift but have no idea what the wording on the stein says. You would think they would tell you. I tried to do word by word but I'm not getting anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.
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Separating out the words this is what it says

Dem einem gibt das Schicksal viel, dem andern Muh und Plage

Using the translator we get "To one, fate gives much, to the other moo and plague".

I'm not sure about the "moo" because I could not type the word with an umlaut.
However, I think you can get the drift from this translation.
 

Thank you all for taking the time to figure this out. After awhile I was seeing double going from site to site looking up words. I just knew the second he opened the gift he would want to know if I knew what it said.
 
Some years ago, a German colleague & friend was killed in a vehicle accident. The news went first to a mutual American colleague who translated the message using Google and forwarded it to me. It read that Herr xxxxxx "Mortally unsuccessful is". It would have been funny if it had not been so tragic.
 
Here's what one German (Fredrick Nietzsche) thought about it:

Amor fati (lit. "love of fate") is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, amor fati is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life.
This acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at change or improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of "eternal recurrence": a sense of contentment with one's life and an acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same life, in all its minute details, over and over for all eternity.

D'ya think this guy studied Nietzsche?

Bobby McFerrin

Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now







 

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