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Matt Haig Quote: “It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?”

101. “It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn’t know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Was I that soft? Or was life a kind of war most people didn’t see?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let’s not worry.”

102. “Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let’s not worry.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Accept. Don’t fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.”

103. “Accept. Don’t fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.”

104. “Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Where talk exists, so does hope.”

105. “Where talk exists, so does hope.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from.”

106. “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough.”

107. “Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”

108. “Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone’s life as a major factor.”

109. “When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone’s life as a major factor.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Why depression is hard to understand IT IS INVISIBLE. It is not “feeling a bit sad.”

110. “Why depression is hard to understand IT IS INVISIBLE. It is not “feeling a bit sad.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don’t value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.”

111. “Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don’t value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.”

112. “Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Which is to say: don’t kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.”

113. “Which is to say: don’t kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

114. “To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”

115. “Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.”

116. “Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”

117. “Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.”

118. “She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.”

119. “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

120. “As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The more ‘success’ you get, the easier it is to be disappointed by not getting things. The only difference is that now no one feels sorry for you.”

121. “The more ‘success’ you get, the easier it is to be disappointed by not getting things. The only difference is that now no one feels sorry for you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. “Everybody dies,” wrote Nora Ephron.” There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.”

122. “When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. “Everybody dies,” wrote Nora Ephron.” There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The rook is my favourite piece,’ she said. ‘It’s the one that you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it’s the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.”

123. “The rook is my favourite piece,’ she said. ‘It’s the one that you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it’s the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don’t know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.”

124. “The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don’t know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.”

125. “She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You can’t change the past. You can’t change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.”

126. “You can’t change the past. You can’t change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.”

127. “That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t say yes to things you wish you had the confidence to say no to.”

128. “Don’t say yes to things you wish you had the confidence to say no to.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

129. “I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.”

130. “Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Let’s not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes – shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all.”

131. “Let’s not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes – shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Medication is an incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for society as a whole. It underlines the idea we have hammered into us by the hundred thousand TV ads we have seen that everything can be fixed by consuming things.”

132. “Medication is an incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for society as a whole. It underlines the idea we have hammered into us by the hundred thousand TV ads we have seen that everything can be fixed by consuming things.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same. The only difference is that the pain of life has rapidly increased. So when you hear about someone killing themselves it’s important to know that death wasn’t any less scary for them. It wasn’t a ‘choice’ in the moral sense. To be moralistic about it is to misunderstand.”

133. “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same. The only difference is that the pain of life has rapidly increased. So when you hear about someone killing themselves it’s important to know that death wasn’t any less scary for them. It wasn’t a ‘choice’ in the moral sense. To be moralistic about it is to misunderstand.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can’t.”

134. “To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can’t.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.”

135. “I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvellous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.”

136. “To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvellous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Yet people still don’t think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn’t say the things they say.”

137. “Yet people still don’t think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn’t say the things they say.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over what they think of the world or of politics or of you. You have no control over what harm they may have done. Even if the harm they have done is to you.”

138. “You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over what they think of the world or of politics or of you. You have no control over what harm they may have done. Even if the harm they have done is to you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t absorb criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.”

139. “Don’t absorb criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.”

140. “Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There comes a point at which you have to face it. To face yourself. In a world of a million distractions you are still left with only one mind.”

141. “There comes a point at which you have to face it. To face yourself. In a world of a million distractions you are still left with only one mind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You don’t have to be positive. You don’t have to feel guilty about fear or sadness or anger. You don’t stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin. It never rains forever. And know that, however wet you get, you are not the rain. You are not the bad feelings in your head. You are the person experiencing the storm.”

142. “You don’t have to be positive. You don’t have to feel guilty about fear or sadness or anger. You don’t stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin. It never rains forever. And know that, however wet you get, you are not the rain. You are not the bad feelings in your head. You are the person experiencing the storm.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We are always bigger than the pain we feel. Always. The pain is not total. When you say “I am in pain,” there is the pain and there is the I but the I is always bigger than the pain. Because the I is there even without the pain, while the pain is only there as a product of that I. And that I will survive and go on to feel other things.”

143. “We are always bigger than the pain we feel. Always. The pain is not total. When you say “I am in pain,” there is the pain and there is the I but the I is always bigger than the pain. Because the I is there even without the pain, while the pain is only there as a product of that I. And that I will survive and go on to feel other things.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She had shrunk for him and he still hadn’t found the space he needed. No more.”

144. “She had shrunk for him and he still hadn’t found the space he needed. No more.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Keep risking ridicule.”

145. “Keep risking ridicule.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you.”

146. “Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation.”

147. “Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You always have a choice. Life is full of choices.”

148. “You always have a choice. Life is full of choices.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And yet, everything was different. And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.”

149. “And yet, everything was different. And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.”

150. “You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.”

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