We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.
Let's all try to conserve water. But it's OK to shower.
I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.
Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.
I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.
You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.
LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
