Shazia

“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment’.”
― 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

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book