Solve for Happy Quotes

“The gravity of the battle means nothing to those at peace”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities becomes our whole lives, and we start to believe them—even more than others do.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we think happened.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Once the thought goes, the suffering disappears! When a rude person offends you, he can’t really make you unhappy, unless you turn the event into a thought, then allow it to linger in your brain, and then allow it to distress you. It’s the thought, not the actual event, that’s making you unhappy. But”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“For human beings, simply put, the default state is happiness. If you don’t believe me, spend a little time with a human fresh from the factory, an infant or toddler. Obviously, there’s a lot of crying and fussing associated with the start-up phase of little humans, but the fact is, as long as their most basic needs are met—no immediate hunger, no immediate fear, no scary isolation, no physical pain or enduring sleeplessness—they live in the moment, perfectly happy.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Be”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“What’s the best that can happen? That is the question to ask. What”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Life, however, sometimes needs to give you a nudge in order to alter your path. It uses a bit of hardship to lead you to something good. In”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“It begins when you believe that you are the center of the universe, that good things happen because you’ve earned them and bad things happen just to annoy you. And that’s the furthest thing from the truth.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“To reach the state of uninterrupted joy, you need to accept that everything in the physical world will eventually vanish and decay, but the real self will remain calm and unaffected. Connecting to that real self to see through the illusions of the physical world delivers the ultimate experience of peace and happiness.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Biologically speaking, feeling good plays an important role as part of our survival machine. Our brains use it to drive survival behaviors that do not relate to immediate threats. To achieve that, our brains flood our bodies with serotonin, oxytocin, and other feel-good chemicals during acts they want to encourage us to do more often.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“There is nothing more to lose; there is nothing more to fear. Eckhart Tolle says this is “to die before you die,” to live life knowing that because one day it’ll all be gone, there’s really nothing that you have, and so nothing you have to lose. Like”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“What keeps us alive and propels us forward are our actions, not our fears. Fear, if anything, paralyzes us. It blurs our judgment and blocks us from making the best possible decisions. Fear of failure doesn’t drive our best performance. All it does is add anxiety. What truly drives us to success is our hard work. And you don’t need to be afraid to work hard.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Our brains replay every painful memory from the past and every possible scary scenario from the future over and over, just like a complex computer simulation, in an attempt to scare us away from threats before they can happen and regardless of the probability of their happening at all.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Life is bound to deal you a few bad hands now and then. You don’t need to make a big deal out of every unexpected turn of events. Your path may be rerouted, but nothing is lost unless you decide to quit. Through it all, arm yourself with the right attitude. As Oscar Wilde said: “It is all going to be fine in the end. If it is not yet fine, then it is not yet the end.” Thriving”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“It’s like living underwater while wearing heavy shoes. Everything around you is hazy, unfamiliar, and heavy. It’s hard to move or function naturally. You feel fatigued as you push against the viscosity of the water. You feel the pressure of the depth and the lack of oxygen to breathe. Your eyes burn with the salty water, but you keep trying to find your way, totally exhausted and performing below your best.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“In contrast, unconditional love is felt but not understood. It’s genuinely built upon “I love” and nothing more—no reasons or preconditions, no expectations and no demands, and consequently no disappointments. No thoughts! This is the only form of true love. It’s rare to find, but it’s real.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“death is the end of our physical form, but it is not the opposite of life. Death is the opposite of birth. Birth and death are the portals through which we come in and go out of this physical form, but life is independent of all that’s physical. Life observes the physical.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Many successful athletes, musicians, and entrepreneurs have achieved their success because they love what they do so much they become experts at it just because the activity itself makes them happy.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Everything is both good and bad. Or perhaps everything is neither.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If you can afford the brain cycles to worry about the future, then by definition, you have nothing to worry about right now. Right now, you’re okay. Many”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If you take exactly the same steps, you will always reach exactly the same outcome regardless of your expectations, frustrations, pressures, or joy. The quality of your actions should not vary, and neither should your persistence in the face of challenges. I”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Take away that thought of what might happen in the future, and it won’t make you suffer.” In this very moment there is absolutely nothing wrong at all. Live”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“You are the observer. You are the one aware of all that is happening around you. I know it may sound disappointing, but you have never seen you. You are not to be seen. You are the one who sees. I”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“When you see the truth of your unfolding life and compare it to realistic expectations of how life actually unfolds, you will remove the reasons to be unhappy and realize, more often than not, that everything’s fine, and so you will feel happy.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“The same thing happens with the human default for happiness. Parental or societal pressure, belief systems, and unwarranted expectations come along and overwrite some of the original programming. The “you” who started out happily cooing in your crib, playing with your toes, gets caught up in a flurry of misconceptions and illusions. Happiness becomes a mysterious goal you seek but can’t quite grasp, rather than something simply there for you each morning when you open your eyes.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“What I realized was that I would never get to happiness as long as I held on to the idea that as soon as I do this or get that or reach this benchmark I’ll become happy. In”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If you can afford to buy a coffee for a couple of dollars, be grateful, because more than three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, and more than 1.3 billion people live on less the $1.25 a day. If you can drink a glass of water, be grateful, because 783 million people do not have access to clean water. If you have a home, be grateful, because there are close to 750,000 homeless people freezing on the streets of big cities just in the United States.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.”8”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy