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Matt Haig Quote: “Sip, don’t gulp.”

251. “Sip, don’t gulp.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”

252. “Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.”

253. “Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity... Love was a way to live forever in a single moment, and it was also a way to see yourself as you had never actually seen yourself, and made you realise – having done so – that this view was a more meaningful one than any of your previous self-perceptions and self-deceptions.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If there is a way out, a way that isn’t death itself, then the exit route is through words. But rather than leave the mind entirely, words help us leave a mind, and give us the building blocks to build another one, similar but better, nearby to the old one but with firmer foundations, and very often a better view.”

254. “If there is a way out, a way that isn’t death itself, then the exit route is through words. But rather than leave the mind entirely, words help us leave a mind, and give us the building blocks to build another one, similar but better, nearby to the old one but with firmer foundations, and very often a better view.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Feeling you have no time doesn’t mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn’t mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven’t achieved enough doesn’t mean you haven’t achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn’t make you less complete.”

255. “Feeling you have no time doesn’t mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn’t mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven’t achieved enough doesn’t mean you haven’t achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn’t make you less complete.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don’t speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.”

256. “When you are depressed you feel alone, and that no one is going through quite what you are going through. You are so scared of appearing in any way mad you internalise everything, and you are so scared that people will alienate you further you clam up and don’t speak about it, which is a shame, as speaking about it helps.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It’s time to disconnect, And go and read a book.”

257. “When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It’s time to disconnect, And go and read a book.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge.”

258. “Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Failure is a trick of the light.”

259. “Failure is a trick of the light.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”

260. “We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You reach a certain age – sometimes it’s fifteen, sometimes it’s forty-six – and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn’t working.”

261. “You reach a certain age – sometimes it’s fifteen, sometimes it’s forty-six – and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn’t working.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn’t help anything. The problem, clearly, isn’t that we have a shortage of time. It’s more that we have an overload of everything else.”

262. “We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn’t help anything. The problem, clearly, isn’t that we have a shortage of time. It’s more that we have an overload of everything else.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is all right to want something – but wanting is also lacking. That is what ‘want’ means. So we have to be careful of our wants and watch that they don’t cause too many holes inside us, otherwise happiness will drip through us like water through a leaky bucket.”

263. “It is all right to want something – but wanting is also lacking. That is what ‘want’ means. So we have to be careful of our wants and watch that they don’t cause too many holes inside us, otherwise happiness will drip through us like water through a leaky bucket.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can’t appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.”

264. “Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can’t appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She wasn’t a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn’t run away from herself. She’d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.”

265. “She wasn’t a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn’t run away from herself. She’d have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature.”

266. “The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

267. “Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.”

268. “So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.”

269. “And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Change doesn’t just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach.”

270. “Change doesn’t just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at all. And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.”

271. “I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at all. And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn’t care for each other, and if they didn’t care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.”

272. “Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn’t care for each other, and if they didn’t care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”

273. “I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.”

274. “Better to be disliked for being you, than being liked for being someone else.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive.”

275. “I wanted to be dead. No. That’s not quite right. I didn’t want to be dead, I just didn’t want to be alive.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”

276. “It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

277. “Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn’t progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Your life will have 25,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.”

278. “Your life will have 25,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. 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.”

279. “To feel hope you don’t need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. 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: “Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.”

280. “Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.”

281. “Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

282. “She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

283. “Read poetry. Especially poetry by Emily Dickinson. It might save you. Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

Matt Haig Quote: “As a black hole forms it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds. You could disappear at any second. This one. Or this one. Or this one. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

284. “As a black hole forms it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds. You could disappear at any second. This one. Or this one. Or this one. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.’ – Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram.”

285. “It’s such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.’ – Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.”

286. “The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it’s hard to hear the song at all.”

287. “Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it’s hard to hear the song at all.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It’s a song we’ve heard.”

288. “Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It’s a song we’ve heard.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.”

289. “I have long convinced myself that the piano is like a drug, seductive and strong, and it can mess you up, it can awaken dead emotions, it can drown you in your lost selves. It is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.′ And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

290. “There is a darkness that fringes everything. It is a most horrid ecstasy.′ And I felt the horror of her horror. That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”

291. “If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”

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

292. “Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”

293. “She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people anymore. I wanted her in every sense.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast.”

294. “Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

295. “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don’t get away with anything.”

296. “You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don’t get away with anything.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time – almost all of it – with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.”

297. “I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time – almost all of it – with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn’t always the same as achievement.”

298. “Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn’t always the same as achievement.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called ‘The World’. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.”

299. “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called ‘The World’. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we – each of us – carried a power inside us. A power that couldn’t be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.”

300. “We were made from stardust, like everything in the universe, and we – each of us – carried a power inside us. A power that couldn’t be destroyed anymore than the universe could be destroyed.”

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