I'm Done Trying If You Want Me In Your Life Quotes

#1. I'm done trying. If you want me in your life, let me know.

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#2. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#3. I was doing that [ a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Michael Stipe

#4. Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Joyce Meyer

#5. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?

Robert M. Price

#6. My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

Roddy McDowall

#7. Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.

Philip Guston

#8. I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

Blythe Baird

#9. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Sakyong Mipham

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

Jaggi Vasudev

#11. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

Adam Duritz

#12. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

#15. I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

Luke Bryan

#16. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.

Jennifer Worth

#17. I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?

Chris Hardwick

#18. I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

Mark David Chapman

#19. A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

John Waters

#20. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Steven Aitchison

#21. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.

Devon Michael

#22. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

Martin Amis

#23. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#25. Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.

Kate Bornstein

#26. In a sense,' Foucault concluded with a flourish, 'all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

James Miller

#27. 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.

David Levithan

#28. When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#29. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

#30. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady

#31. Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Anna Del C. Dye

#32. Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most.

Linda Winfree