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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Ben Okri

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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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Heart Mad People
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together
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
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
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
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People

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