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Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Ben Okri

I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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Individual Secret Stories
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
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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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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Facts Hint Perfection
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

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