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 FONDAYou 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.
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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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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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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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.
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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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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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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.
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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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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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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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