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

• Buddhist sustainable development : a new approach in happiness and development.

• World Happiness Report 2018

IRAH

" 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) | "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) | "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 greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." (Jeremy Bentham) | "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." (Sophocles) | "Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence." (Leo Tolstoy) | "Where there is peace, there is happiness." (Ajahn Chah)