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Matt Haig Quote: “The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature... solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”

401. “The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature... solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.”

402. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

403. “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option, I suppose, is that you write a book.”

404. “Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option, I suppose, is that you write a book.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Much of gossip is envy in disguise, Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.”

405. “Much of gossip is envy in disguise, Much of self-doubt is conformity in disguise.”

Matt Haig Quote: “An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

406. “An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die.”

407. “I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value. It rises not only in visibility but also intensity. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.”

408. “When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value. It rises not only in visibility but also intensity. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.”

Matt Haig Quote: “No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.”

409. “No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I was scared. I couldn’t not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.”

410. “I was scared. I couldn’t not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.”

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.”

411. “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.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

412. “There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Shame is a shackle. Free yourself.”

413. “Shame is a shackle. Free yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Understand people are more than a social media post. Think how many conflicting thoughts you have in a day. Think of the different contradictory positions you have held in your life. Respond to online opinions but never let one rushed opinion define a whole human being. “Every one of us,” said the physicist Carl Sagan, “is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

414. “Understand people are more than a social media post. Think how many conflicting thoughts you have in a day. Think of the different contradictory positions you have held in your life. Respond to online opinions but never let one rushed opinion define a whole human being. “Every one of us,” said the physicist Carl Sagan, “is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.”

415. “Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That’s the first elf rule. You can’t see something you don’t believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.”

416. “To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That’s the first elf rule. You can’t see something you don’t believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.”

417. “Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.”

Matt Haig Quote: “For decades and decades and decades I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.”

418. “For decades and decades and decades I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess 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.”

419. “We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess 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: “But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not in years, not in terms of actual time, but in terms of how time feels.”

420. “But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not in years, not in terms of actual time, but in terms of how time feels.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don’t live.”

421. “It can drive you insane, thinking of all the other lives we don’t live.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”

422. “The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn’t stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he’d try to be like his mother. Colourful, and happy and kind and full of joy.”

423. “So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn’t stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he’d try to be like his mother. Colourful, and happy and kind and full of joy.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Let’s just understand this. If we are tired or hungry or hungover, we are likely to be in a bad mood. That bad mood is therefore not really us. To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.”

424. “Let’s just understand this. If we are tired or hungry or hungover, we are likely to be in a bad mood. That bad mood is therefore not really us. To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I’ve never had a coconut chilli Martini before,′ I tell him. ‘That’s the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.’ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ he says, still the optimist. ‘I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It’s the mana, you see. It’s everywhere. It’s never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.”

425. “I’ve never had a coconut chilli Martini before,′ I tell him. ‘That’s the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.’ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ he says, still the optimist. ‘I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It’s the mana, you see. It’s everywhere. It’s never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different. Or daring to be the you that exists beyond all the physical clutter and mind debris of modern existence.”

426. “When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different. Or daring to be the you that exists beyond all the physical clutter and mind debris of modern existence.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.”

427. “The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I want to know if one of the reasons I sometimes feel like I am on the brink of a breakdown is partly because the world sometimes seems on the brink of a breakdown.”

428. “I want to know if one of the reasons I sometimes feel like I am on the brink of a breakdown is partly because the world sometimes seems on the brink of a breakdown.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

429. “Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

Matt Haig Quote: “But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”

430. “But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”

Matt Haig Quote: “For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves. So I had, through some crude emotional mathematics, decided it was better not to seek out love or companionship or even friendship.”

431. “For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves. So I had, through some crude emotional mathematics, decided it was better not to seek out love or companionship or even friendship.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I am a catastrophizer. I don’t simply worry. No. My worry has real ambition. My worry is limitless. My anxiety – even when I don’t have capital-A Anxiety – is big enough to go anywhere. I have always found it easy to think of the worst-case scenario and dwell on it.”

432. “I am a catastrophizer. I don’t simply worry. No. My worry has real ambition. My worry is limitless. My anxiety – even when I don’t have capital-A Anxiety – is big enough to go anywhere. I have always found it easy to think of the worst-case scenario and dwell on it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Some humans not only liked violence, but craved it, I realised. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted away from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.”

433. “Some humans not only liked violence, but craved it, I realised. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted away from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up sometimes thinking about everything. 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.”

434. “We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up sometimes thinking about everything. 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: “To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and 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. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.”

435. “To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and 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. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I was convinced I wasn’t made for the reality of the world. And in a way, I was right. I wasn’t made for the world. I was, like everyone, made by the world. I was made by parents and culture and TV and books and politics and school and maybe even shopping centres. So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn’t yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.”

436. “I was convinced I wasn’t made for the reality of the world. And in a way, I was right. I wasn’t made for the world. I was, like everyone, made by the world. I was made by parents and culture and TV and books and politics and school and maybe even shopping centres. So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn’t yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.”

$Matt Haig Quote: “Suddenly it made me realize why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So if they believed in themselves – the logic must go – why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?”$

437. “Suddenly it made me realize why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So if they believed in themselves – the logic must go – why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?”

Matt Haig Quote: “Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing – indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.”

438. “Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing – indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you’re feeling bad about yourself, stay away from Instagram.”

439. “If you’re feeling bad about yourself, stay away from Instagram.”

Matt Haig Quote: “You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn’t the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible.”

440. “You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn’t the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”

441. “There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.”

442. “Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past – the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers – or from the future – the possibilities we would be switching off.”

443. “I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past – the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers – or from the future – the possibilities we would be switching off.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.”

444. “Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It occurred to me that human beings didn’t live beyond a hundred because they simply weren’t up for it. Psychologically, I mean. You kind of ran out. There wasn’t enough self to keep going. You grew too bored of your own mind.”

445. “It occurred to me that human beings didn’t live beyond a hundred because they simply weren’t up for it. Psychologically, I mean. You kind of ran out. There wasn’t enough self to keep going. You grew too bored of your own mind.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It’s the people we reach via the iPhone that mater.”

446. “Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It’s the people we reach via the iPhone that mater.”

Matt Haig Quote: “That kind of monotony that running generates – the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements – became a kind of metaphor for depression.”

447. “That kind of monotony that running generates – the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements – became a kind of metaphor for depression.”

Matt Haig Quote: “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. – CARL SAGAN.”

448. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. – CARL SAGAN.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

449. “Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.”

450. “Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.”

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