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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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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Another Ourselves Planted Unknowingly
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
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Dream Mean Reality
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories

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