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 FONDAInstead 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.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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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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I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
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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.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.
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I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
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I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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.
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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?
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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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