Matt Haig Quotes

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Friends accept you the way you are.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.