The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living

by Dalai Lama XIV

Researchers on human happiness identify compassionate service to others as one of the key characteristics shared by many of the world’s happiest people.

But once these basic needs are met, the message is clear: we don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate—right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.