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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.

Ben Okri

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
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Circles Past Writing
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet

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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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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