Chang-Tzu

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

Don’t worry, be happy!

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

I think happiness is love.

I’m always smiling and happy.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

Let’s make ourselves happy