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“While no one can guarantee that anyone else can be
happy, their chances of survival and happiness can be improved.
And with theirs, yours will be.”
L. Ron Hubbard.
 The
Way to Happiness International is the coordination point for
unique grass-roots, volunteer-based campaigns to improve the
quality of community life for peoples around the world: It runs
programs for school children of all ages, provides succor to
victims of natural disasters, and offers the restoration of
compassionate and tolerant values for community survival to
peoples in areas torn by war, civil and ethnic strife, and terrorism.
With ABLE’s help, The Way to Happiness International offers
standards through which our children can reach a positive adulthood
and which all individuals can use to increase their own abilities
to live satisfying lives.
The origins of this program go back to 1980 when L. Ron Hubbard
noted the rapid decline in community moral standards and wrote:
“Reading the papers and wandering around in the society,
it was pretty obvious that honesty and truth were not being
held up to the standards they once had. People and even little
kids in schools have gotten the idea that high moral standards
are a thing of the past.”
In response to this situation, he compiled a non-religious moral
code grounded fully in common sense, The Way to Happiness.
Since the booklet first appeared in 1981, more than 56,000,000
copies have been published in 36 languages and distributed in
more than 70 countries. As it is non-religious and based on
compelling logic, the booklet is able to reach people in diverse
cultures and settings. Indeed, its uses are so many it is possible
here to mention only some of the most prominent.
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“The goals, and
the patterns, and the methods of The Way to Happiness
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to me to be about as dramatic a response to the prayers
of the forefathers as could possibly be contrived... Methodic
faceted ways to improve the moral, the physical, the intellectual
aspects of the culture in which we live.”
Alex Haley
Author of Roots
“My whole family was involved in gangs, so I grew
up with this  kind
of life. I had gone to prison and had lost hope. Then
I read The Way to Happiness. I had never looked
at the illegal things I had done, and realized that some
of the things I did that I thought were right were really
wrong. I thought it was okay to put people down. Now
I see that if you do good things for people it will come
back to you. This book brought me hope.”
J.P. |
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