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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Country Home Literature
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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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Inspirational Love Sympathy
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Hungry Rivers World
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
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
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
Our 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.
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Beautiful Space Unique

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