One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
JANE FONDAThe more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.
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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
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If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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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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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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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
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I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
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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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I 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.
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I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
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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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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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