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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.

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

Conscious Control Master Situation Thinking
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection Yourself
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
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
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
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
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 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.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
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
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
JANE FONDA

Learning Perfection Time
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.
JANE FONDA

Actor Carry Different Pay People
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
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
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.
JANE FONDA

Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA

Human Power Revolution Yourself

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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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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