I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
JANE FONDAIt’s better to be interested than interesting.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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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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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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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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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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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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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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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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