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 Economics: A Holistic Development Approach for True Well-being

• Buddhist Sustainable Development Through Inner Happiness

IRAH

"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) | "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) | "Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings." (Immanuel Kant) | "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) | "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily." (Plato)