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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."
"If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter."."
"Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason."
"in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members."
"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."
"Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'"
"Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others."
"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."
"Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing."
"Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow."
"The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly."
"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."
"Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust."
"Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I'm really comfortable in one."
"Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves."
"JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it."
"It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done."
"We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group."
"In trying to defend everything he defended nothing."
