10 inspirational doris lessing quotes on success

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.