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Matt Haig Quote: “But while choice is infinite, our lives have time spans. We can’t live every life. We can’t watch every film or read every book or visit every single place on this sweet earth. Rather than being blocked by it, we need to edit the choice in front of us. We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don’t need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.”

201. “But while choice is infinite, our lives have time spans. We can’t live every life. We can’t watch every film or read every book or visit every single place on this sweet earth. Rather than being blocked by it, we need to edit the choice in front of us. We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don’t need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.”

Matt Haig Quote: “As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

202. “As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

Matt Haig Quote: “New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won’t laugh at in five years. Like love. Or a good poem. Or a song. Or the sky.”

203. “New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won’t laugh at in five years. Like love. Or a good poem. Or a song. Or the sky.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.”

204. “Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You will regret the fear. In The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware–a nurse who worked in palliative care–shared her experience of talking to those near the end of their lives. Far and away the biggest regret they had was fear. Many of Bronnie’s patients were in deep anguish that they had spent their whole lives worrying. Lives consumed by fear. Worrying what other people thought of them. A worry that had stopped them being true to themselves.”

205. “You will regret the fear. In The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware–a nurse who worked in palliative care–shared her experience of talking to those near the end of their lives. Far and away the biggest regret they had was fear. Many of Bronnie’s patients were in deep anguish that they had spent their whole lives worrying. Lives consumed by fear. Worrying what other people thought of them. A worry that had stopped them being true to themselves.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.”

206. “Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Think of how detached we are from nature. How we have to do so much to it before we can bottle it and put the name ‘wild’ on it.”

207. “Think of how detached we are from nature. How we have to do so much to it before we can bottle it and put the name ‘wild’ on it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The possibility of pain is where love stems from.”

208. “The possibility of pain is where love stems from.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.”

209. “Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You get up. You put on your clothes. And then you put on your personality. Choose wisely.”

210. “You get up. You put on your clothes. And then you put on your personality. Choose wisely.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

211. “Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

Matt Haig Quote: “A world full of people hating themselves is not a happy world. Buddhism does not seem to be about self-punishment. A key buddhist symbol is that of the lotus flower. The lotus flower grows in mud at the bottom of a pool, but rises above the murky water and blooms in the clear air, pure and beautiful, before eventually dying. This metaphor for spiritual enlightenment also works as a metaphor for hope and change.”

212. “A world full of people hating themselves is not a happy world. Buddhism does not seem to be about self-punishment. A key buddhist symbol is that of the lotus flower. The lotus flower grows in mud at the bottom of a pool, but rises above the murky water and blooms in the clear air, pure and beautiful, before eventually dying. This metaphor for spiritual enlightenment also works as a metaphor for hope and change.”

Matt Haig Quote: “But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn’t perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.”

213. “But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn’t perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”

214. “To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.”

215. “Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.”

Matt Haig Quote: “One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: 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.”

216. “One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: 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: “If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.”

217. “If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You’ll be cool when you’re dead.”

218. “You’ll be cool when you’re dead.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Pain is a debt paid off with time.”

219. “Pain is a debt paid off with time.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”

220. “Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?”

221. “Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”

222. “Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.”

223. “Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.”

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. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.”

224. “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. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Words don’t capture, they release.”

225. “Words don’t capture, they release.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You need to feel life’s terror to feel its wonder.”

226. “You need to feel life’s terror to feel its wonder.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.”

227. “I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.”

228. “People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.”

229. “I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It’s always best to live it as yourself.”

230. “Don’t do the work people expect you to do. Do the work you want to do. You only get one life. It’s always best to live it as yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Nora went through her social media. No messages, no comments, no new followers, no friend requests. She was antimatter, with added self-pity.”

231. “Nora went through her social media. No messages, no comments, no new followers, no friend requests. She was antimatter, with added self-pity.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.”

232. “Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert wind. It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”

233. “It made me lonely. And when I say lonely, I mean the kind of loneliness that howls through you like a desert wind. It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can’t provide it but is also indifferent to their quest.”

234. “The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can’t provide it but is also indifferent to their quest.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life.”

235. “Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t compare your actual self to a hypothetical self. Don’t drown in a sea of ‘what ifs’. Don’t clutter your mind by imagining other versions of you, in parallel universes where you made different decisions.”

236. “Don’t compare your actual self to a hypothetical self. Don’t drown in a sea of ‘what ifs’. Don’t clutter your mind by imagining other versions of you, in parallel universes where you made different decisions.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.”

237. “If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life’s imperfect wonder.”

238. “Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life’s imperfect wonder.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.”

239. “Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That’s the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then – well, that stuff’s just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.”

240. “That’s the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then – well, that stuff’s just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.”

Matt Haig Quote: “10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It’s the rhythm of the song of you. It’s how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.”

241. “10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It’s the rhythm of the song of you. It’s how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”

242. “Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the ‘black dog’ for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: ‘I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.”

243. “Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the ‘black dog’ for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: ‘I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it’s a price always worth paying. I am satisfied just to be.”

244. “I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it’s a price always worth paying. I am satisfied just to be.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It’s a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.”

245. “I have been in love only once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It’s a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.”

246. “The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”

247. “And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

248. “Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.”

249. “I loved her, instantly. Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”

250. “The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”

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