You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
BEN OKRIWe are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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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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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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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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Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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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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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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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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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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