My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDAYou think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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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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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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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’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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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 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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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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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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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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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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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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