There are lists of the mitzvot at such places as
http://www.613.org and you can do a Google search for 613 mitzvot and come up with other lists, re-ordered or redefined in various ways by different sages.
It's not that you couldn't bear to do the mitzvot, Donovinhs Knight. No one's saying you're not strong enough or smart enough or pious enough. It's just that not every mitzvah applies to you.
Some mitzvot only apply if you're bringing a sacrifice to the Temple (Beit Mikdash), which isn't standing. Some apply only if you're living in Jerusalem, or in the land of Israel (Biblical boundaries, not necessarily modern ones). Some only apply if you're living outside Eretz Yisrael.
Some of the laws apply only to Kohanim, others to only Leviim, and others only to non-Kohein, non-Leivi Jews. Some laws only apply to converts who have converted, and others only to converts in the process of conversion. Some only apply to non-Jews who are living in a Jewish community, whether they do or don't ever intend to convert.
Some laws apply only to women and some only to men.
Some laws only apply once you've transgressed another law. Some only apply if you're a soldier at war. Some only apply if you're a ruling monarch.
In other words, it is quite literally impossible to follow EVERY law. Hashem never meant you to have to do all of them. What it means to follow all the laws is that you follow the ones that apply to you, and you support those who need to follow the other laws by trying not to make it harder on them than it has to be. This is one of the many reasons that Jews need community, and one of the many reasons why Jews need non-Jews in the world as well, Noachides. Judaism recognizes diversity in humanity. We are ALL in the image of Hashem, and even so, Hashem is more than all of us combined. But we are all facets, sparks, of G*D's divinity, trying to do G*D's will in the world as best we know how, to our own abilities, in order that more and more of G*D can be revealed in the world.
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