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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#few #few things #fifty #found #hardest

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#know #never #only #really #tried

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#comedy #ended #existence #exorcist #me

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#eternally #even #everything #finite #form

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#championship #game #here #i #need

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#average #average person #capable #competence #developed

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #jumped #only #scary #two

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#age #because #being #difficult #dramas

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#day #difficult #difficult task #every #every day

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#ever #find #go #going #keep