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Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
Matt Haig is an internationally bestselling author and tireless mental health advocate who has written extensively about his own struggles with anxiety and depression, notably in Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet. With his signature warmth, humor, and honesty, Matt’s writing has become a go-to for people around the world in search of comfort. Read on for some of our favorite words of wisdom from Matt Haig.
“That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
“Tough love doesn’t work. Turns out that just good old ‘love’ is enough.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
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― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Reading isn’t important because it helps you get a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
— Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Find a good book. And sit down and read it. There will be times in your life when you’ll feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. I want you to remember that. The more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It’s the rhythm of the song of you. It’s how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“We are infinitely better than the most perfect-looking bionic sex robots. We are humans. Let’s not be ashamed to look like them.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“‘A note from the beach’
Hello.
I am the beach.
I am created by waves and currents.
I am made of eroded rocks.
I exist next to the sea.
I have been around for millions of years.
I was around at the dawn of life itself.
I don’t care about your body.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
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