We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.
JANE FONDAI’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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
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It’s better to be interested than interesting.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.
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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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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 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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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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The secret of losing weight is patience.
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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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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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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