By Matt Haig

Nora stared down at the small mole on her left hand. That mole had been through everything she’d been through. And it jus stayed there not caring. Just being a mole.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently.

“To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead” // Bertrand Russell

It’s hard to predict isn’t it? The things that will make us happy.

Sometimes the only way to learn is to live

There was something quite freeing about that. To be existing without any expectation, even her own.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them.

You can choose choices but not outcomes

A bad outcome doesn’t always mean a bad choice.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

Life is strange. How we love it all at once. In a straight line. But really that’s not the whole picture. Because like isn’t simply made of the things we do but the things we don’t do too.

Maybe that’s what all lives were though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

Sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

You don’t have to understand life you just have to live it.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see