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Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t let anonymity turn you into someone you would be ashamed to be offline. Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know. Keep empathy alive. Break patterns. Resist robotic tendencies. Stay human.”

151. “Don’t let anonymity turn you into someone you would be ashamed to be offline. Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know. Keep empathy alive. Break patterns. Resist robotic tendencies. Stay human.”

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.”

152. “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: “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.”

153. “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: “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.”

154. “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: “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.”

155. “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: “The difference between a gift and a curse was sometimes just a question of perspective.”

156. “The difference between a gift and a curse was sometimes just a question of perspective.”

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

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

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.”

158. “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: “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.”

159. “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: “Keep risking ridicule.”

160. “Keep risking ridicule.”

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

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

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.”

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

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

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.”

164. “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: “We all come from randomness. We exist out of uncertainty. Out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.”

165. “We all come from randomness. We exist out of uncertainty. Out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.”

Matt Haig Quote: “What I mean is that travel tesseracts experience. It explodes it to the fourth dimension. And it becomes dizzying to realize how many nows are happening all at once.”

166. “What I mean is that travel tesseracts experience. It explodes it to the fourth dimension. And it becomes dizzying to realize how many nows are happening all at once.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The silence at the end of the song is as important as the song itself.”

167. “The silence at the end of the song is as important as the song itself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Joint pain was like grief. The more you thought about it, the more it hurt, but you couldn’t not think about it because it bloody hurt. Vicious circle.”

168. “Joint pain was like grief. The more you thought about it, the more it hurt, but you couldn’t not think about it because it bloody hurt. Vicious circle.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The object of art is to give life a shape,’ said Shakespeare. And my life –and my mess of a mind –needed shape. I had ‘lost the plot’. There was no linear narrative of me. There was just mess and chaos. So yes, I loved external narratives for the hope they offered. Films. TV dramas. And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.”

169. “The object of art is to give life a shape,’ said Shakespeare. And my life –and my mess of a mind –needed shape. I had ‘lost the plot’. There was no linear narrative of me. There was just mess and chaos. So yes, I loved external narratives for the hope they offered. Films. TV dramas. And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That’s the one with a story.”

170. “It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That’s the one with a story.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Do you ever think ‘how did I end up here?’ Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it’s all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?”

171. “Do you ever think ‘how did I end up here?’ Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it’s all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?”

Matt Haig Quote: “To want is to lack. That is what it means.”

172. “To want is to lack. That is what it means.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

173. “Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”

174. “She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”

Matt Haig Quote: “But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.”

175. “But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Minds can’t see what they can’t handle. It’s like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.”

176. “Minds can’t see what they can’t handle. It’s like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.”

177. “You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.”

178. “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.”

179. “You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan.”

180. “Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”

181. “So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Tough love doesn’t work. Turns out that just good old ‘love’ is enough.”

182. “Tough love doesn’t work. Turns out that just good old ‘love’ is enough.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living.”

183. “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can’t be tamed.”

184. “That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can’t be tamed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 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.”

185. “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 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: “The universe tended towards chaos and entropy. That was basic thermodynamics. Maybe it was basic existence too.”

186. “The universe tended towards chaos and entropy. That was basic thermodynamics. Maybe it was basic existence too.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ’is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”

187. “Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ’is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.”

188. “Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Want is an interesting word. It means lack.”

189. “Want is an interesting word. It means lack.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

190. “The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.”

191. “Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.”

192. “You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It’s okay to let people find you. You don’t have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don’t have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

193. “It’s okay to let people find you. You don’t have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don’t have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

194. “An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are, is not how happy you are.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.”

195. “Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value.”

196. “When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The sky, like the sea, can anchor us. It says: hey, it’s okay, there is something bigger than your life that you are part of, and it’s – literally – cosmic.”

197. “The sky, like the sea, can anchor us. It says: hey, it’s okay, there is something bigger than your life that you are part of, and it’s – literally – cosmic.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change. Cars rust. Paper yellows. Technology dates. Caterpillars become butterflies. Nights morph into days. Depression lifts.”

198. “Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change. Cars rust. Paper yellows. Technology dates. Caterpillars become butterflies. Nights morph into days. Depression lifts.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”

199. “You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”

200. “The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”

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