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

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.

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.

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 “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”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

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)

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

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