And Now For The Good News... Quotes

“Life is not a rerun, we don’t have stunt doubles or understudies, we’re it. The universe doesn’t happen to us, we are the universe happening. It actually matters what we do.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“The oxytocin doesn’t just induce feelings of pleasure, it stimulates empathy and compassion, which are also contagious, and so we infect each other with kindness and that is when the human race is at its finest.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“You might live your whole life drowning in low self-esteem just because you didn’t spell ‘catipilar’ right even though you might be great at drawing the caterpillar,”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“the more powerful you are, the more depleted you may be of human qualities”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“I don’t know which is worse, suffering the pain of isolation or having to listen to someone’s views on Brexit. Both make you want to kill yourself.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“I’ve learnt, it’s better to be aware of what’s going on in your mind. If you aren’t, you’ll project your poison on to other people and then blame them for your own flaws.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“1 per cent of the world have the same amount of money as 99 per cent of the world put together. Forty-two people hold the same wealth as 3.7 billion of the world’s poorest. The entire wealth of Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon (my home-away-from-home for binge shopping at 4 a.m. for things I will never need), has increased to $122 billion. Just to give you an idea of how much that is, the whole of government spending in Ethiopia with a population of 105 million people is a mere $95 billion. Why Ethiopians aren’t hunting him down, I do not know. In 1978 the average CEO made about thirty times more than the average worker’s salary. By 2006 the CEOs have seen almost a 950 per cent increase in their earnings. Meanwhile, the average American worker has seen an 11 per cent raise. Bad News About Business”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“We have to stop speaking about the Earth being in need of healing. The Earth doesn’t need healing, we do.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world

“I have learnt that how someone sees you is really none of your business; it’s the film they’re playing of you, nothing to do with you, so move away from the building.”
― Ruby Wax, And Now For The Good News...: The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world