Quotes from Matt Haig

They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the two most important events that happen to them – procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.

Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.

The sky grows dark, the black over blue. Yet the stars still dare to shine for you

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

Depresiv". Toat? lumea ar purta o etichet? dac? ar întreba specialistul potrivit.

But you also have to know what you like. What to type in the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.

A veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.

Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

anything that lessens that extreme sense of self, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome.

You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

Interessant dat het leven soms een heel nieuw perspectief kreeg als je maar lang genoeg wachtte omdat te zien, peinsde ze.

Instead, we must follow the economy of mood where it leads, attending to the sources that bring so many into low mood states—think routines that feature too much work and too little sleep. We need broader mood literacy and an awareness of tools that interrupt low mood states before they morph into longer and more severe ones. These tools include altering how we think, the events around us, our relationships, and conditions in our bodies (by exercise, medication, or diet).

Gökyüzü karar?r Mavi siyaha döner Y?ld?zlar yine de kafa tutar Parlar senin için

Because in one universe you have always been there. The book will never be returned, so to speak. It becomes less of a loan and more of a gift.

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered.

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity. Yes, that was what love was for. (I may not have understood marriage, but I understood love, I was sure of it.)

Icosagon', she told him. 'What?' 'The quiz. Earlier. The twenty-sided polygon. Well, a twenty-sided polygon is called an icosagon. I knew the answer but didn't tell you because I didn't want you to mock me. And now I don't really care because I don't think me knowing some things you don't should bother you.

You don't go to death. Death comes to you.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much

Je hoeft het leven niet te begrijpen. Je hoeft het alleen maar te léven.