The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAI’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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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You 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.
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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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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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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
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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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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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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.
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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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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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