Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
JANE FONDAYou 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
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The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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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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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
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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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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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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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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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