There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Pearl Bailey
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  1. This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

  2. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller

  3. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. - Hermann Hesse

  4. Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my... - Tennessee Williams

  5. Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS - Germaine Shames

More Quotes By Pearl Bailey
  1. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  2. 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.

  3. You must change in order to survive.

  4. 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.

  5. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

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