Busy Philipps Quotes

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.