The Comfort Book

by Matt Haig

Love is not something you only deserve if you reach a goal.

You were born worthy of love and you remain worthy of love. Be kind to yourself.

If we keep going in a straight line we’ll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other,

It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That’s the one with a story.

‘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.

We can have our feet right here where we are, while our minds can

hear another octave, right over the rainbow. We can be half inside the present, half inside the future. Half in Kansas, half in Oz.

Depression lies.

I didn’t realise that there is something bigger than depression, and that thing is time.

And that sometimes all you need to do in order to rise up again is to keep moving forward.

we are more than can be measured.

We are the infinity that remains when you subtract them.

Stay for the person you will become.

Words don’t capture, they release.

Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.