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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.

Ben Okri

Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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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Power Should Vision
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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Children Dream Kids
Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Escape Life Press Strange

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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