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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Ocean People Stories
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

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