Mo Gawdat Quotes

“All of life is here and now. So why do most of us live there and then instead?”

“Everything is both good and bad. Or perhaps everything is neither.”

“Happiness is a choice. You can actually achieve it and there is a method to make it happen. Happiness is not a coincidence, it is not given to you by life, it’s entirely our responsibility.”

“Happiness is like keeping fit. You have to work out.”

“If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you!”

“If you go back to childhood, you observe that if a child’s basic needs are met their default state is happy – they don’t need an iPhone, they can play with their toes and be happy.”

“Take away that thought of what might happen in the future, and it won’t make you suffer.”

“We deal with time every day, yet no one really knows what time is.

We have created machines that measure mechanical movement in such a way, yet we have no idea what it is that we are measuring and we are very happy to torture ourselves with it.”

“We should be happy now, not in the future. Now is all we have.”