852 Quotes by Matt Haig

When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. “Everybody dies,” wrote Nora Ephron.” There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.

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

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.

Don’t think your work matters more than it does.

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

The past is never gone. It just hides.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. – Albert Camus, A Happy Death.

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.

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.