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.
JANE FONDAYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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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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