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.
JANE FONDAStay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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’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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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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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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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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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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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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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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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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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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