- 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.
10 inspirational doris lessing quotes on success
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