Ruby Wax

“The brain is a magnificent machine, but it's not a friend. It's designed to keep you safe, not happy.”

“For those of us who have the ‘disease to please’, we will do anything to avoid a confrontation.”

“Why is it, when you have a mental breakdown, the thing that you lose is your mind?”

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

“Thinking is the new smoking.”

“We are not equipped for this century. We are hit with an avalanche of information, and we are not equipped to deal with it.”

“How come when you're insane, you're not supposed to know it? It's a raw deal.”

“Burn-out is not a badge of honour.”

“Women are cursed, and men are the proof.”

“I have a nervous breakdown in the supermarket. I scream and start throwing tins of beans. It's a fantastic attention-getter.”

“Mindfulness means being present, not being perfect.”

“Your thoughts are just thoughts. They are not you.”

“The critical inner voice is the soundtrack to our lives. We all have it.”

“Anger is like a grenade. You pull the pin and you throw it, but you don't know where it's going to land.”