Doris Lessing Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Every child has the capacity to be everything.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Children

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

• It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Truth, Terrible

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.52, Heinemann

• Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

• Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

• What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Inspirational, Needs

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

• There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Real, Sin

  The Golden Notebook "Free Women: 5" (1962)

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