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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Jane Fonda

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.
JANE FONDA

Communalism Hope Myself Politics Prayer Socialist Understand
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
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Challenge Perfection Whole
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
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Myself Thinking
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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Assistance Myself People Wait
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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Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
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Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
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Institution Marriage
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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Different Empathy Eyes Intimacy Relationship Sex Togetherness Yourself
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
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Feeling Love Move Myself
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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Master Weakness Yourself
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
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Act Blood Born Children Love Ourselves Revolution
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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Country Endurance Force Future Ourselves Poverty Thinking
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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Believe Life Love Perfection 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
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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Oxygen Relationship
I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
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Movie Realize Sex Shock Star Symbol Woman World
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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Give Up Knowledge Known Learning Lesson Young Yourself
Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
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Myself Patriarchy Rise Thinking Violence War Woman
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
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Liberty Point Structure 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.
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Forgiveness People Quite Wrong Yourself
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
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Let Go Need Wisdom
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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Actor Carry Different Pay People
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
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Children Fall Important Myself Parents Thinking
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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Finding Learning Try Yourself
The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
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Beautiful Energy Glow Healthy Woman
Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
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Body Condition Ourselves Protection Strength
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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Care Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Stay Time Yourself

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