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“A reminder for the tough times One day this will be over. And we will be grateful for life in ways we never felt possible before.” (The Comfort Book Quotes)
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can’t move.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Continually looking for the meaning of life is like looking for the meaning of toast. It is sometimes better just to eat the toast.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Don’t absorb criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Don’t say yes to things you wish you had the confidence to say no to.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Each of us has the power to enter a new world. All we have to do is change our mind.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“External events are neutral. They only gain positive or negative value the moment they enter our minds. It is ultimately up to us how we greet these things. It’s not always easy, sure, but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways. It also empowers us, because we aren’t at the mercy of the world we can never control, we are at the mercy of a mind we can, potentially, with effort and determination, begin to alter and expand. Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Forgiving other people is great practice for forgiving yourself when the time comes.” (The Comfort Book Quotes)
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Hope isn’t the same thing as happiness. You don’t need to be happy to be hopeful. You need instead to accept the unknowability of the future, and that there are versions of that future which could be better than the present. Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn’t fit in was because I didn’t want to.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy, we can’t be happy. It is like demanding the sea be entirely still before we sail on it.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“If we keep going in a straight line we’ll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can’t climb a mountain that you pretend isn’t there.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“It is easier to learn to be soaked and happy than to learn how to stop the rain.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“It is impossible to grow in a world without struggle.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“It is the contemplation of absurd odds. We are all inside a dream that is real. We are the fires conjured from nothing. We exist out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That’s the one with a story.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people’s lives.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Loneliness isn’t an absence of company. Loneliness is felt when we are lost. But we can be lost right in the middle of a crowd. There is nothing lonelier than being with people who aren’t on your wavelength. The cure for loneliness isn’t more people. The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“No physical appearance is worth not eating pasta for.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn’t give up.
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Room Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn’t reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through your present and away like air through a window, freshening a room. Imagine that.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can’t speak, we can write. When we can’t write, we can read. When we can’t read, we can listen. Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can’t be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.” (The Comfort Book Quotes)
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate-looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic. The flowers survive by clustering together, low to the ground, offering each other shelter against the hardest conditions on earth.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The moments of deepest pain in my life were also the moments I learned the most about myself.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The only fear of missing out that matters is the fear of missing out on yourself.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The present is known. The future is unknown. The present is solid. The future is abstract. Ruining the present by worrying about the future is like burning your most treasured possession simply because you might one day lose other possessions that you don’t own yet.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The sky isn’t more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn’t sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren’t better company if you’re famous. P izza tastes good regardless of your job title. The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“There will be other days. And other feelings.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It’s about the determination to keep walking forward.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“We never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“When things go dark, we can’t see what we have. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have those things. Those things remain, right in front of us. All we need is to light a candle, or ignite some hope, and we can see that what we thought was lost was merely hidden.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“While everything is uncertain, everything is hope.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Words don’t capture, they release.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You are the goal you don’t have to continually improve yourself to love yourself. Love is not something you deserve only if you reach a goal. The world is one of pressure but don’t let it squeeze your self-compassion. You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love. Be kind to yourself.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You can’t change the past. You can’t change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.” (The Comfort Book Quotes)
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You don’t have to continually improve yourself to love yourself. Love is not something you deserve only if you reach a goal. The world is one of pressure but don’t let it squeeze your self-compassion. You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love. Be kind to yourself.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You don’t need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You don’t punish anyone other than yourself by keeping hate inside you.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You exist as long as life exists. Because the life you feel inside you is part of the same life force that exists in every living thing.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“Your value has no because. You are the right quantity. You are a full cup. You are worth yourself, and that is always enough.”
Matt Haig
The Comfort Book
“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 on 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
The Comfort Book
