“To have no ideas whatsoever as to what will make you happy is happiness itself”

“Q. I know what will make me happy, but cannot attain it.

A. If you know what will make you happy, you don’t know. If you know, you will be unhappy when what you desire fails to appear or goes away. But if you don’t know what will make you happy, you are happy, because you have nothing to lose. To have no ideas whatsoever as to what will make you happy is happiness itself.”

– Vernon Howard, Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 98