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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.

Jane Fonda

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
JANE FONDA

Body Condition Ourselves Protection Strength
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.
JANE FONDA

Community Difference Kind People Positive River Understand Yourself
I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
JANE FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
JANE FONDA

Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
JANE FONDA

Need Negative Treat Yourself
We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
JANE FONDA

Learning Perfection Time
We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.
JANE FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
JANE FONDA

Curious Interesting Learn Stay
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.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
JANE FONDA

Career Expectation Reflection Yourself
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 FONDA

Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound Yourself
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

Concern Control Culture Motive Ourselves Profit
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Acceptance Approval Kind Myself Talk Winning
If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
JANE FONDA

Growth Human Ourselves Stimulation Value Work

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