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.
JANE FONDALook what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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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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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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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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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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 like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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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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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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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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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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