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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

Ben Okri

Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
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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Beautiful Despair Secret
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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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Destiny Dream Fate
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
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

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.

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