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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

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
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
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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Beautiful Gun Reality
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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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Inspiring Night Water
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
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
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Dream Flower Strong

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

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