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

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

Doris Lessing

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.”
“Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.”
“I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.”
“It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.”
“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”
“You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them...and the more you use your power to try to control people the less influence you'll have on their lives.”
“About my work, my first film, Ã‰coute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)”

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