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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More Jane Fonda Quotes
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Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
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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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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.
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You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
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Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
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Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.
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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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You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.
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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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It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
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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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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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