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Ben Okri Quotes
«Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. 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. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.»
«We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. 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.»
«The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Dreams,
Reality
| Keywords:
dreamed, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, participant, participants, possessing, realities, the participants, The Re
«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.»
Author: Ben Okri
«The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Funny,
Magic,
Politicians
| Keywords:
draw away, in common, magician, The Magician
«The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.»
«The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Ability,
Competence,
Creativity,
Goodness,
Love,
Overcoming,
Suffering,
Suicide
| Keywords:
About us, authentic, transform