Leandra Medine Quotes

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

You learn to accept your own reality.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.