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.
Jane FondaRead
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
Interpretation
Life experiences can be transformed into valuable lessons through reflection and creativity.
In this quote, Jane Fonda expresses how she has used her personal journey, including the challenges and reflections gained from therapy and writing her memoirs, to extract lessons that can be beneficial to others. This emphasizes the power of self-reflection and storytelling as a means to derive wisdom from one’s life experiences and to share that wisdom with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
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.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
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.
To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.
As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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