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 FONDAWe 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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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.
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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.
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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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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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.
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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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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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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.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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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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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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