852 Quotes by Matt Haig

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

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.

An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are, is not how happy you are.

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

You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you’re on.

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.

Be happy with your own self, minus upgrades. Stop dreaming of imaginary goals and finishing lines. Accept what marketing doesn’t want you to: you are fine. You lack nothing.

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.