The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDAYou can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
More Jane Fonda Quotes
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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
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We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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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’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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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 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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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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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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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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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.
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If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.
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