"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time."

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We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

— Dalai Lama