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The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.
I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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.
I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.
It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.
When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians
I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.
I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.
I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.