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 OKRIStories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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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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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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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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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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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?
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One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
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