Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

by Mo Gawdat

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

“It is all going to be fine in the end. If it is not yet fine, then it is not yet the end.”

Once, after Ali left, when we were flipping through his beautiful pictures, Nibal showed me some baby pictures of him and said, “He was such a peaceful baby. Never cried and never complained. That baby visited for a while, and then he left. That form was gone forever, and then came the toddler. He was so curious and happy, and then he left; the toddler too never returned. The child who was so decent and pleasant visited, and then he left for the loving, giving boy to come, followed by the calm, knowledgeable teenager, and finally the handsome, wise man. Now that person too has left. I enjoyed knowing them all and miss every one of them, but each one sooner or later had to leave.”