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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"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

"The challenge is not to be perfect—it is to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

"The challenge is not to be perfect… it’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

Personal Growth

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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning from Mistakes

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

Learning from Mistakes

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

Learning from Mistakes

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed, Its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

- Og Mandino

Learning from Mistakes