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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.”

301. “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: “What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.”

302. “What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind. She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.”

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

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

Matt Haig Quote: “She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it. And then, at some point after it started, the kiss ended, and I stroked her hair, and the church bells rang in the distance and everything in the world was in alignment.”

304. “She was the stars and the heavens and the oceans. There was nothing but that single fragment of time, and this bud of love we had planted inside it. And then, at some point after it started, the kiss ended, and I stroked her hair, and the church bells rang in the distance and everything in the world was in alignment.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.”

305. “Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself.”

306. “In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree.”

307. “Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I’ve let people down. I haven’t always been easy. I’ve done things I regret. I was a bad wife. Not always a good mother, either. People have given up a little on me, and I don’t entirely blame them.”

308. “I’ve let people down. I haven’t always been easy. I’ve done things I regret. I was a bad wife. Not always a good mother, either. People have given up a little on me, and I don’t entirely blame them.”

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.”

309. “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: “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.”

310. “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: “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.”

311. “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: “That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

312. “That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There will be other days. And other feelings.”

313. “There will be other days. And other feelings.”

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.”

314. “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: “I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

315. “I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

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.”

316. “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.”

Matt Haig Quote: “A sore throat doesn’t become less sore simply because you’ve felt it before.”

317. “A sore throat doesn’t become less sore simply because you’ve felt it before.”

Matt Haig Quote: “But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

318. “But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. 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.”

319. “Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. 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.”

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

320. “Impossible. An old elf swearword.”

Matt Haig Quote: “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.”

321. “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: “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.”

322. “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: “School is a joke. But go along with it, because you are very near to the punchline.”

323. “School is a joke. But go along with it, because you are very near to the punchline.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was – is – a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”

324. “There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was – is – a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don’t always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Thomas Hobbes had viewed memory and imagination as pretty much the same thing, and since discovering that she had never entirely trusted her memories.”

325. “Thomas Hobbes had viewed memory and imagination as pretty much the same thing, and since discovering that she had never entirely trusted her memories.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I had been through no war and yet I related to that feeling of pain contained in every new day, as “Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.” It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with posttraumatic 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?”

326. “I had been through no war and yet I related to that feeling of pain contained in every new day, as “Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.” It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with posttraumatic 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: “I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.”

327. “I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”

328. “Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.’ – Sylvia Plath.”

329. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.’ – Sylvia Plath.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.”

330. “You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”

331. “To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.”

332. “If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.”

333. “Blood doesn’t satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from. It is a switch to another language. The kiss was an act of defiance, maybe of war. You can’t touch us, is what the kiss said.”

334. “Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can’t escape from. It is a switch to another language. The kiss was an act of defiance, maybe of war. You can’t touch us, is what the kiss said.”

Matt Haig Quote: “In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.”

335. “In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don’t worry about it.”

336. “You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don’t worry about it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.”

337. “One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.”

338. “There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.”

Matt Haig Quote: “No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren’t sharp enough to hurt.”

339. “No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren’t sharp enough to hurt.”

Matt Haig Quote: “A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.”

340. “A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”

341. “You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?”

342. “If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?”

Matt Haig Quote: “You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger.”

343. “You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.”

344. “She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.”

345. “Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.”

346. “Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.”

347. “Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.”

Matt Haig Quote: “One thing mental illness taught me is that progress is a matter of acceptance. Only by accepting a situation can you change it. You have to learn not to be shocked by the shock. Not to be in a state of panic about the panic. To change what you can change and not get frustrated by what you can’t.”

348. “One thing mental illness taught me is that progress is a matter of acceptance. Only by accepting a situation can you change it. You have to learn not to be shocked by the shock. Not to be in a state of panic about the panic. To change what you can change and not get frustrated by what you can’t.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To be healthy meant to be covered. Clothed. Literally and metaphorically.”

349. “To be healthy meant to be covered. Clothed. Literally and metaphorically.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you’re feeling mentally unwell, treat yourself as you would a physical problem.”

350. “If you’re feeling mentally unwell, treat yourself as you would a physical problem.”

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