by Matt Haig
– To live is to suffer
- She wanted to have a purpose, something to give her a reason to exist. But she had nothing.
- ‘I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.’
- The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.
- Minds can’t see what they can’t handle.’
- You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- All good things are wild and free.
- Every second of every day we are entering 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.
- ‘At the beginning of a game of chess, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living.’
- It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- The sky grows dark; The black over blue; Yet the stars still dare; To shine for you
- ‘Life begins,’ Sartre once wrote, ‘on the other side of despair.’
- ‘You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.’
Disclaimer: The key points of the book presented here are not a substitute for reading the book. To get the entire holistic message the author has offered requires reading the book.
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