Quotes about Trying in Life

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks. Votes: 2

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions. Votes: 2

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. Votes: 2

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting. Votes: 2

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure. Votes: 2

The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. Votes: 2

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. Votes: 2

My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way. Votes: 2

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. Votes: 2

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun. Votes: 2

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried. Votes: 2

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited. Votes: 2

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. Votes: 2

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. Votes: 2

I'm not trying to live a social media life or a life to just be in a magazine. Votes: 2

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. Votes: 2

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh. Votes: 2

To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life. Votes: 2

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. Votes: 2

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life. Votes: 2

Isn't (life) all about trying? Votes: 0

Every day I am trying to improve my life. Votes: 0

I am trying to move forward with my life. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to get back to normal life. Votes: 0

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying. Votes: 0

You can't go through life trying to please everyone. Votes: 0

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.. Votes: 0

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. Votes: 0

Life is about trying things to see if they work. Votes: 0

Trying to say something is all you got in life. Votes: 0

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life. Votes: 0

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education. Votes: 0

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced. Votes: 0

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music. Votes: 0

The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Votes: 0

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. Votes: 0

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday. Votes: 0

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project. Votes: 0

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work. Votes: 0

Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health Votes: 0

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life. Votes: 0

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. Votes: 0

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. Votes: 0

All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow. Votes: 0

Life is like sex. It's not always good, but its always worth trying. Votes: 0

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first. Votes: 0

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding. Votes: 0

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something. Votes: 0

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life. Votes: 0

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. Votes: 0

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. Votes: 0

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. Votes: 0

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. Votes: 0

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge. Votes: 0

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live. Votes: 0

I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present. Votes: 0

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl. Votes: 0

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media. Votes: 0

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. Votes: 0

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note. Votes: 0

Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating. Votes: 0

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic. Votes: 0

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? Votes: 0

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life. Votes: 0

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience. Votes: 0

Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him]. Votes: 0

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. Votes: 0

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. Votes: 0

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing. Votes: 0

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. Votes: 0

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves. Votes: 0

Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all. Votes: 0

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end. Votes: 0

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. Votes: 0

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you. Votes: 0

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. Votes: 0

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. Votes: 0

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything. Votes: 0

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means. Votes: 0

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake? Votes: 0

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. Votes: 0

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means. Votes: 0

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses. Votes: 0

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better. Votes: 0

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it. Votes: 0

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. Votes: 0

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children. Votes: 0

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life. Votes: 0

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff. Votes: 0

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Votes: 0

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in. Votes: 0

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in. Votes: 0

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life. Votes: 0

I ain't trying to ruin your life If anything I just want to make it right Votes: 0

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life. Votes: 0

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Votes: 0

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it. Votes: 0

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. Votes: 0

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life. Votes: 0

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket. Votes: 0

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life. Votes: 0

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money Votes: 0

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Votes: 0

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different. Votes: 0

What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Votes: 0

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. Votes: 0

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. Votes: 0

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey. Votes: 0

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest. Votes: 0

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. Votes: 0

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career. Votes: 0

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people, Votes: 0

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. Votes: 0

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. Votes: 0

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible. Votes: 0

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it. Votes: 0

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had Votes: 0

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting. Votes: 0

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving Votes: 0

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. Votes: 0

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. Votes: 0

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Votes: 0

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve. Votes: 0

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want. Votes: 0

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader. Votes: 0

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. Votes: 0

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season. Votes: 0

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. Votes: 0

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me. Votes: 0

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Votes: 0

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. Votes: 0

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart. Votes: 0

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person. Votes: 0

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. Votes: 0

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. Votes: 0

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can. Votes: 0

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life. Votes: 0

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! Votes: 0

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties. Votes: 0

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life. Votes: 0

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. Votes: 0

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside. Votes: 0

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. Votes: 0

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life? Votes: 0

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home. Votes: 0

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane. Votes: 0

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone. Votes: 0

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me. Votes: 0

Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her. Votes: 0

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life. Votes: 0

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning. Votes: 0

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. Votes: 0

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool. Votes: 0

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. Votes: 0

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. Votes: 0

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt. Votes: 0

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas. Votes: 0

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is. Votes: 0

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving? Votes: 0

The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them. Votes: 0

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life. Votes: 0

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying. Votes: 0

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music. Votes: 0

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. Votes: 0

We are only failures in life when give up and stop trying.If you fail, get up and try again. Votes: 0

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland. Votes: 0

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. Votes: 0

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life. Votes: 0

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. Votes: 0

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble Votes: 0

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. Votes: 0

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid. Votes: 0

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs. Votes: 0

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Votes: 0

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. Votes: 0

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. Votes: 0

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye Votes: 0

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life. Votes: 0

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. Votes: 0

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. Votes: 0

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. Votes: 0

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive. Votes: 0

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Votes: 0

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared. Votes: 0

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy. Votes: 0

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it. Votes: 0

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged. Votes: 0

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life Votes: 0

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory. Votes: 0

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet. Votes: 0

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. Votes: 0

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week. Votes: 0

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable Votes: 0

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. Votes: 0

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Votes: 0

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. Votes: 0

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat. Votes: 0

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something. Votes: 0

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. Votes: 0

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. Votes: 0

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. Votes: 0

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up? Votes: 0

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. Votes: 0

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something. Votes: 0

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. Votes: 0

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people. Votes: 0

Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so. Votes: 0

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy. Votes: 0

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. Votes: 0

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish. Votes: 0

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life. Votes: 0

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. Votes: 0

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Votes: 0

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough. Votes: 0

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. Votes: 0

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. Votes: 0

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench Votes: 0

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in. Votes: 0

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says. Votes: 0

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other. Votes: 0

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins. Votes: 0

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Votes: 0

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself. Votes: 0

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. Votes: 0

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it. Votes: 0

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them. Votes: 0

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that. Votes: 0

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it. Votes: 0

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. Votes: 0

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way. Votes: 0

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying. Votes: 0

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time. Votes: 0

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life. Votes: 0

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration. Votes: 0

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself. Votes: 0

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right. Votes: 0

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart. Votes: 0

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible. Votes: 0

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny. Votes: 0

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest. Votes: 0

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. Votes: 0

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had. Votes: 0

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. Votes: 0

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that. Votes: 0

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. Votes: 0

It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well. Votes: 0

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. Votes: 0

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. Votes: 0

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other. Votes: 0

Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky. Votes: 0

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. Votes: 0

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. Votes: 0

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life. Votes: 0

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Votes: 0

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years. Votes: 0

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His. Votes: 0

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. Votes: 0

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people. Votes: 0

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. Votes: 0

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that. Votes: 0

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. Votes: 0

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. Votes: 0

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world. Votes: 0

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh. Votes: 0

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do. Votes: 0

I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on Oh, I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in this world Votes: 0

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart. Votes: 0

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place. Votes: 0

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. Votes: 0

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. Votes: 0

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. Votes: 0

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. Votes: 0

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place. Votes: 0

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life? Votes: 0

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. Votes: 0

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that! Votes: 0

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. Votes: 0

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. Votes: 0

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be. Votes: 0

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life. Votes: 0

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me. Votes: 0

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. Votes: 0

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself. Votes: 0

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap. Votes: 0

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years. Votes: 0

You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator. Votes: 0

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? Votes: 0

It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying. Votes: 0

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart. Votes: 0

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying. Votes: 0

For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life? Votes: 0

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. Votes: 0

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope. Votes: 0

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it. Votes: 0

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch. Votes: 0

I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life. Votes: 0

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. Votes: 0

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle. Votes: 0

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science. Votes: 0

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs! Votes: 0

I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19. Votes: 0

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here. Votes: 0

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray. Votes: 0

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money. Votes: 0

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it. Votes: 0

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while. Votes: 0

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live. Votes: 0

Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life. Votes: 0

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once. Votes: 0

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious. Votes: 0

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old. Votes: 0

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are. Votes: 0

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous. Votes: 0

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be. Votes: 0

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training. Votes: 0

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? Votes: 0

The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida. Votes: 0

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible. Votes: 0

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can. Votes: 0

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying. Votes: 0

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it. Votes: 0

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing. Votes: 0

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. Votes: 0

Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan. Votes: 0

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it. Votes: 0

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation. Votes: 0

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together. Votes: 0

If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured. Votes: 0

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again? Votes: 0

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined. Votes: 0

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment. Votes: 0

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.' Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent. Votes: 0

But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else. Votes: 0

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is. Votes: 0

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life. Votes: 0

Life isn't fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don't need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages. Votes: 0

Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there. Votes: 0

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't. Votes: 0

People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me? Votes: 0

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can. Votes: 0

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. Votes: 0

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasnt trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself. Votes: 0

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes. Votes: 0

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself. Votes: 0

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong. Votes: 0

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union... Votes: 0

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. Votes: 0

It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity. Votes: 0

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves. Votes: 0

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that. Votes: 0

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential. Votes: 0

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. Votes: 0

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. Votes: 0

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. Votes: 0

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. Votes: 0

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible. Votes: 0

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. Votes: 0

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so. Votes: 0

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. Votes: 0

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. Votes: 0

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life. Votes: 0

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so. Votes: 0

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life. Votes: 0

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live. Votes: 0

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking. Votes: 0

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it. Votes: 0

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could. Votes: 0

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire. Votes: 0

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear. Votes: 0

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort. Votes: 0

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. Votes: 0

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life. Votes: 0

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. Votes: 0

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. Votes: 0

I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there. Votes: 0

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. Votes: 0

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up. Votes: 0

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools. Votes: 0

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. Votes: 0

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag. Votes: 0

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go. Votes: 0

'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.' Votes: 0

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. Votes: 0

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me. Votes: 0

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out. Votes: 0

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it. Votes: 0

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. Votes: 0

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. Votes: 0

When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent. Votes: 0

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement. Votes: 0

There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out. Votes: 0

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person. Votes: 0

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. Votes: 0

What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions. Votes: 0

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. Votes: 0

Life can be messy.No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof.But in spite of their anxieties and their angers,At least- They Are trying to live. Votes: 0