Solve for Happy Quotes

“Eliminate the six illusions, fix the seven blind spots—and stop trying to escape—and you’ll reach happiness more often than not.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Love follows the same law: true love can’t be destroyed; it just changes from one form to another. Because of that conservation, the love that you inject into a system morphs and then comes back to you from where you least expect it. Actually, it does one better than energy: it attracts the love of all beings to you. Like a savings account, the more love you deposit, the more it grows and multiplies so that when it’s time for you to withdraw, even more will be there for you.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Imagine that you need a root canal and the dentist offers you either (a) the standard procedure with a few days of recovery or (b) a root canal with additional bonus days of extensive excruciating pain. Why on earth would you ever choose (b)?”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“¡Si hay algo que cambiará tu vida para siempre es reconocer que la voz que te habla no eres tú!”
― Mo Gawdat, El algoritmo de la felicidad: Únete al reto de los 10 millones de personas felices

“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“You truly never know for sure.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Please think about that for a minute. Think of a few times when something you believed to be true surprised you by turning out to be the furthest thing from the truth.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We defend what we know and get offended when it’s attacked.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“By the time we find out that what we know is actually false, the equation is already dysfunctional and the suffering has already set in.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“As a matter of fact, false knowledge is the underlying reason for most unhappiness.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

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

“How could we go on doing what we need to do if we believe it is based on false assumptions? How could someone passionately engage in doing something if she believes it’s wrong? Everyone, even wrongdoers, need to somehow find logic to justify what they do.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“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.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If fun suspends your thoughts, and happiness arises when your brain agrees with the events of your life, then joy is when thoughts are no longer even needed because the analysis has ended, and the equation has permanently been solved.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“As a businessman I’ve learned that we can improve only on that which we measure.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“With no thoughts, we return to our default, childlike, state: happiness!”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Fun is an effective painkiller because it mimics happiness by switching off the incessant thinking that overwhelms our brains—for a while.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Happiness starts with a conscious choice.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“I choose not to suffer.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“It all begins when you accept the thought passing through your head as absolute truth. The longer you hold on to this thought, the more you prolong the pain.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Anticipating awful things in the future or ruminating about awful moments from the past is not the useful, instructive, and unavoidable experience of everyday pain. This prolonged extension of pain is a serious bug in our system because: Suffering offers no benefit whatsoever. None!”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“All the thinking in the world, until converted into action, has no impact on the reality of our lives.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Our mortality, ironically, is a life coach. Before you die, you might as well live a happy life. So let’s learn how to find happiness despite death—or even because of death.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“In the 1930s, the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky observed that inner speech is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx. Based on this, he argued that inner speech developed through the internalization of out-loud speech. In the 1990s, neuroscientists confirmed his view; they used neuroimaging to demonstrate that areas of the brain such as the left inferior frontal gyrus, which are active when we speak out loud, are also active during inner speech. That voice inside your head truly is your brain talking, even though you’re the only one who can hear it.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“One of the most fascinating is the experience shared by Anita Moorjani, author of Dying to Be Me.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“happiness supplement that you take regularly to stay healthy. As a businessman I’ve learned that we can improve only on that which we measure. So set yourself a fun quota. I do! I aim for a daily target of music and a weekly quota of comedy, workouts, and other feel-good activities.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“There’s no drama until we throw in the past and the future.”
― 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. As harsh as this definition sounds, it’s very close to how we go through life while being totally unaware.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Our universe is the product of masterful design. The designer doesn’t run the show; the equations he designed do.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We humans, unlike the machines we make, constantly question the design. We think it should have been better. Our biggest disagreement with the designer, and the reason many reject the concept, is rooted in the disapproval of the way he behaves.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy