Trying Quotes

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; if i am - he'll think of something

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

I try to act out of faith.

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

You try to walk in the light.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.