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 FONDAAll my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
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We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.
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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.
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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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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
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Go for the burn! Sweat!
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I’ll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I’ve seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I’ll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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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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Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.
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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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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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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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