The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
Doris Lessing O Magazine, October 2003
Categories: age

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing
Categories: happiness

Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
Categories: laughter

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
Categories: learning