Solve for Happy Quotes

“Our universe is so complex that we often get lost in the details. Even Einstein admitted the limitations to our understanding: “[Looking at creation] we are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Now please consider the following: How different is your life on this earth from a video game? If your physical form—the avatar you use to navigate the physical world—is not the real you, then what difference does it make if you face a few challenges on the way?”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle pushes this strangeness further and proves that our own act of observation changes the reality of the world we observe. The uncertainty principle suggests that the physical world—the world all around us—is observer-dependent. Without an observer, in other words, everything would remain a wave of endless probabilities. You and I and every other life-form are not a product of the physical world; it is a product of us, because by observing it, we make the physical world what it is.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Even if they beg and plead, don’t turn back. Three chances are more than enough. Assertiveness will save your life and will also help teach them to treat their other friends better.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“This is the reason relationships suffer: they’re built on conditional love in an ever-changing world. Expectations of beauty, entertainment value, physical pleasure, and other forms of expectation have become preconditions for love. When the lover changes, the expectations are missed and the fairy tale turns into a nightmare. Unconditional love, on the other hand, withstands every change.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“All of life is here and now. So why do most of us live there and then instead?”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“One last time life threw me into the center of the arena to face my biggest horror. The pain was unbearable. It still is, but in the process life wiped away my last fear. There is nothing more that can be taken away. With that one last move on the chessboard, I win, or perhaps I lose. Either way, there will never be another fear.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Think about it: If you can afford the brain cycles to worry about the future, then by definition, you have nothing to worry about right now.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“We think fear is a sign of weakness. It makes us feel vulnerable. We act strong, puff out our chests, and hide our fears. We practice our disguise so long that we believe it. Think about it, though: when is a puffer fish fully puffed? Being puffed isn’t a sign that it is brave but a sign that it is afraid, very afraid.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“To make a judgment you need to compare a current observation to one you’ve made in the past. To be anxious you need to think about the future and anticipate that it’ll be worse than the present. To be bored you need to long for a state other than what’s happening in the present. To be ashamed you need to re-create a moment that no longer exists. To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Imagine that the whole universe is squeezed into one train: every galaxy, star, and planet and every grain of sand and living being. This train sets off on a journey, not from one city to the next but rather on a journey through time. As a passenger on that train, you can move anywhere you choose, but you can’t change the train’s direction or speed, which is restricted to a track that is the arrow of time. You just go for the ride with no control over its position or orientation, hopping from a slice of “now” to the next along the time dimension.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Einstein further explained that the pull of gravity actually slows time down. So if you were an astronaut on a long interstellar trip and your spacecraft passed close to a black hole (where the gravitational force is massive), time would slow down significantly. When you got back to Earth you might have aged several years, but your spouse and your friends would have already lived into old age. We can observe this effect in a much smaller way right here on Earth. If you lived in Dubai on the top floor of Burj Khalifa, the world’s highest tower, time would pass slightly faster for you than it would for someone living on the ground floor, just because gravity affects each of you differently. While a variance like this is too small for the human body to detect, it’s measurable with today’s technology. It gets even more bizarre. The math indicates that in space-time, past, present, and future are all part of an integrated four-dimensional structure in which all of space and all of time exist perpetually.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“You’ll never please everyone. Find those who like the real you and invite them closer. All others don’t matter to you.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Now go ahead and tell me how the real you looks. Can you? Like the depth of the ocean, the real you is something you’ve never seen. Like radio waves, you don’t have the instrument to perceive it. More importantly, because of its nonphysical nature, it is not to be seen. Being seen is a characteristic only of the physical world.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“When you’re seeking modest improvement in what exists, you start working with the same tools and assumptions, the same mental framework on which the old technology is based. But when the challenge is to move ahead by a factor of ten, you start with a blank slate. When you commit to a moonshot, you fall in love with the problem, not the product. You commit to the mission before you even know that you have the ability to reach it. And you set audacious goals.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Todo empieza cuando se acepta el pensamiento que atraviesa nuestra mente como la verdad absoluta. Cuanto más nos apegamos a ese pensamiento, más tiempo prolongamos el dolor.”
― Mo Gawdat, El algoritmo de la felicidad: Únete al reto de los 10 millones de personas felices

“Voy a trabajar, peleo en las reuniones, cometo errores, grandes errores que hieren a quienes amo y que me hacen sentir dolor. De hecho, no siempre soy feliz. Pero he descubierto un modelo que funciona: un modelo que nos ha ayudado en nuestro dolor, el modelo que la vida de”
― Mo Gawdat, El algoritmo de la felicidad: Únete al reto de los 10 millones de personas felices

“Instead of feeling sad that he left, for the first time I felt happy that he came to visit in the first place.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“When nothing is certain - and nothing ever is - choose to be happy”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“to grasp at an individual level, it becomes clearer when you consider”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

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

“Death is the opposite of birth.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“The more love you give, the more you get back.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Seek the path of least resistance.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“No effort is needed to keep any system at its equilibrium. When everything you do feels effortless, you’ll have found your path.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

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

“It is all going to be fine in the end. If it is not yet fine, then it is not yet the end.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“The Illusion of Knowledge is strongly supported by the Illusion of Self, particularly the ego. We identify ourselves with our knowledge. We defend what we know and get offended when it’s attacked. Since what we think is true is often different for different people, the attacks become frequent. It becomes a constant struggle to try to defend an ego. Undress. Leave your knowledge open to attacks. Be wise. Define yourself by openness to those who contradict what you “know.” Be an explorer, a seeker of the truth, always ready to admit being wrong in order to continue the quest.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“Cosmologists are often wrong but never in doubt.”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy

“If the triggers for happy moments are so ordinary and so accessible, why does “finding” happiness remain such a big challenge for so many people? And why, when we “find” it, does it so easily slip away?”
― Mo Gawdat, Solve For Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy