Courses Quote by Doris Lessing

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described…

— Doris Lessing

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

— Martha Graham

The contrast of being in the spotlight when you're very young and then suddenly not can be really bad for your mental state.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world…

— Julian Barnes

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather…

— Clive James

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

— Evelyn Waugh

For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and…

— Veronica Roth

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

— Mohsin Hamid

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside -…

— Douglas Coupland

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

— Frederick Lenz

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

— Wayne Dyer

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world…

— Angelina Jolie