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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

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.
JANE FONDA

Addiction Age Bully Damage Hard Mental Myself Old
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.
JANE FONDA

Intimate Issues Learning Ourselves Relationship Start Thinking
I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.
JANE FONDA

Myself Thinking
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
JANE FONDA

Feeling Love Move Myself
Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.
JANE FONDA

Easy Enjoyment Necessary
The institution of marriage is obsolete.
JANE FONDA

Institution Marriage
It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
JANE FONDA

Master Weakness Yourself
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
JANE FONDA

Empathy Face Revolution Scare Understand
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.
JANE FONDA

Finding Learning Try 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.
JANE FONDA

Learning Mistake Scars Success Truth Wound Yourself
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.
JANE FONDA

Give Up Knowledge Known Learning Lesson Young Yourself
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

Challenge Desire Perfection Whole
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
JANE FONDA

Exercise Kind Resistance Stretching Yourself
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
JANE FONDA

Oxygen Relationship
When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
JANE FONDA

Country Feeling Myself World
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

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