Doris Lessing Quotes
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Quotes to Explore
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.
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Good players on good teams don't get too high, don't get too low. They're even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.
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I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!
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None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
