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 FONDAI 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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When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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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 challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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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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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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When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.
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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.
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No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
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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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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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Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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