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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.

Ben Okri

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People 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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
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
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
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

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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