We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
JANE FONDAI don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
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I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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