To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
BEN OKRIOur time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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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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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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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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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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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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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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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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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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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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