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People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey
2.
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey
3.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
4.
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
5.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
Pearl Bailey
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey
9.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey
12.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
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The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
Pearl Bailey
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Pearl Bailey
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You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey
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My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
Pearl Bailey
17.
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
Pearl Bailey
18.
Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.
Pearl Bailey
19.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Pearl Bailey
20.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
21.
I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.
Pearl Bailey
22.
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey
23.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Pearl Bailey
24.
I discuss humanity and not races.
Pearl Bailey
25.
You can taste a word.
Pearl Bailey
26.
I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?
Pearl Bailey
27.
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
Pearl Bailey
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The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.
Pearl Bailey
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Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.
Pearl Bailey
30.
The deed of love is stronger than words
Pearl Bailey
31.
Fate carries its own clock.
Pearl Bailey
32.
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
Pearl Bailey
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I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
Pearl Bailey
34.
I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.
Pearl Bailey
35.
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
36.
How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?
Pearl Bailey
