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Quotes About Self

Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status or popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.
~ Matt Haig
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
~ Matt Haig
In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life.
~ Matt Haig
She liked this life – or more precisely, she liked the version of herself in this life.
~ Matt Haig
Kita tidak membutuhkan apapun selain diri kita. Kita sudah cukup. Tempat kita disini, Kita sudah berada di tempat yang seharusnya.
~ Matt Haig
It is a popular modern idea. That the inner us is something different to the outer us. That there is an authentic realer and better and richer version of ourselves which we can only tap into by buying a solution. This idea that we are separate from our nature, as separate as a bottle of Dior perfume is from the plants of a forest.
~ Matt Haig
After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become.
~ Matt Haig
A human being is complete just being human. We are our own destination.
~ Matt Haig
S)he no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfillment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or parter or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.
~ Matt Haig
Every second of every day we are entering into 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.
~ Matt Haig
You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
~ Matt Haig
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.
~ Matt Haig
Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.
~ Matt Haig
You have no control over who people think you are. So don't worry.
~ Matt Haig
Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.
~ Matt Haig
The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil – rich, fertile soil. She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
~ Matt Haig
You are the library card.
~ Matt Haig
In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.
~ Matt Haig
We are the subject in the sentence.
~ Matt Haig
That was the depressing thing about knowing other albas. You realised that we weren't special. We weren't superheroes. We were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years or decades or centuries had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.
~ Matt Haig
But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.
~ Matt Haig
We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence.
~ Matt Haig
The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
~ Matt Haig