Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I don't torture myself.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.