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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.

Jane Fonda

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
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
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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Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound Yourself
The secret of losing weight is patience.
JANE FONDA

Lose Patience Secret Weight
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary Yourself
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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Curious Interesting Learn Stay
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA

Asylum Life Mental People Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Better Healing Hurt Quite Remember Yourself
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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Need Negative Treat Yourself
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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Challenge Perfection Whole
We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
JANE FONDA

Business Economic Establishment Profit Structure

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 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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