International Research Associates for Happy Societies (IRAH) : towords happy society and peaceful world

• Ruut Veenhoven Award 2017 granted by the Erasmus Economic Research Organization

• Buddhist Sustainable Development Through Inner Happiness

• Buddhist Economics: A Holistic Development Approach for True Well-being

IRAH

"Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence." (Leo Tolstoy) | " Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want." "True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'." (Buddhadasa Bhikkhu) | "Only the really happy person has real peace, and only the person who has peace can be really happy. ...the highest kind of happiness, to be realized through the liberating wisdom or insight into the true nature of things." (Bhikkhu Prayudh Payutto) | "Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient." (Aristotle) | "I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness." "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." (Dalai Lama) | "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." (John Stuart Mill) | "People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." (Ramona L. Anderson)