“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 grassroots, 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 people 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 60,000,000 copies have been published in 41 languages and distributed in more than 94 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.

“The goals, and the patterns, and the methods of The Way to Happiness seem 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.