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 FONDAWe are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
-
-
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.
JANE FONDA -
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA -
The secret of losing weight is patience.
JANE FONDA -
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDA -
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
JANE FONDA -
I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDA -
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDA -
We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA -
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA -
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDA -
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA -
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA -
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA -
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.
JANE FONDA -
We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
JANE FONDA -
Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA