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Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.

Jane Fonda

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 FONDA

Need Perfection Yourself
The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
JANE FONDA

Challenge Perfection Whole
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.
JANE FONDA

Assistance Myself People Wait
The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.
JANE FONDA

Afraid Brave Courage Oneself Soldier
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.
JANE FONDA

Better Healing Hurt Quite Remember Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Age Born Live Yourself
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
JANE FONDA

Distraction Time Yourself
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
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
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
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 FONDA

Childhood Complete Goodness Myself Perfection Review Time
I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
JANE FONDA

Country Freedom History Known World Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Care Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Stay Time Yourself
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
JANE FONDA

Angry Bloom Rage
You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.
JANE FONDA

Office Run Secretary Yourself
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage

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