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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.

Jane Fonda

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 FONDA

Discover Friendship Identity Myself Personality Truth
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
In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
JANE FONDA

Country Minority Noise Way
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 have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Life Myself Stand
I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
JANE FONDA

Dangerous Myself Patriarchy Thinking World Wound
I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
JANE FONDA

Confidence Inspirational Revolutionary Woman Woman Empowerment
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
JANE FONDA

Affirmation Beautiful Satisfaction Unique Yourself
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?
JANE FONDA

Drink Movie Myself Smoke Thinking
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
JANE FONDA

Believe Life Love Perfection Yourself
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
JANE FONDA

Need Negative Treat 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
We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
JANE FONDA

Business Economic Establishment Profit Structure
If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
JANE FONDA

Allow Break Place Strong Yourself
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Intimate Issues Learning Ourselves Relationship Start Thinking
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
JANE FONDA

Act Blood Born Children Love Ourselves Revolution
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
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
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.
JANE FONDA

Confession Myself Properly Treason
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
JANE FONDA

Decline Heaven Life Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
JANE FONDA

Country Feeling Myself World
I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
JANE FONDA

Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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.
JANE FONDA

Finding Learning Try Yourself
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 FONDA

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole

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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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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