The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
BEN OKRIIn 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.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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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 fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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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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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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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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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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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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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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