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 FONDAThe bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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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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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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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 our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.
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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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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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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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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
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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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Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
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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 you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
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