852 Quotes by Matt Haig

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    For those that don’t know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small, waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.

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    I find that being grimly aware of mortality can make me steadfastly determined to enjoy life where life can be enjoyed. It makes me value precious moments with my children, and with the woman I love. It adds intensity in bad ways, but also good ways.

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    Kindness is a boomerang. You throw it out and you get it back. You had done kind things in the world, and you had been rewarded with kindness in return.

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    No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they have read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it, they are dead.

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    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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    All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

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    Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

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    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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    Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.

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