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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

Ben Okri

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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Individual Secret Stories
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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Character Creativity Reading
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

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