Ben Okri on realizing
Ben Okri79 quotes“When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.”
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
Ben OkriBen Okri I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
Ben OkriBen Okri The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Ben OkriBen Okri The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
Ben OkriBen Okri There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
Ben OkriBen Okri a dream can be the highest point of a life
Ben OkriBen Okri I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben OkriBen Okri 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.
Ben OkriBen Okri The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
Ben OkriBen Okri Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Ben OkriBen Okri Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
Ben OkriBen Okri What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
Ben OkriBen Okri I know that human beings are capable of anything.
Ben OkriBen Okri You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
Ben OkriBen Okri I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
Ben OkriBen Okri I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Ada LimonAda Limon You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who’s in ruttin’ command here!
Adam BaldwinAdam Baldwin It’s not that I want to be, but it’s a fascination of the mind and it plays a role in why I want to live my life a certain way.
Ada LimonAda Limon The more I am aware of my mortality the better person I am and the better I am at choosing a life that is aware of its beauty.
Ada LimonAda Limon All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Abu Ammaar Yasir QadhiAbu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna
