Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri

a dream can be the highest point of a life

Dream

Highest

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.

Heart

Mad

People

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Darkness

Inner Darkness

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. 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.

Grief

Miracle

Suffering

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Art

Creativity

Impossible

Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Gold

Neglect

Yards

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.

Ghetto

Imagination

Vibrancy

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Fighting

People

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Order

Squares

Your Smile

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Human Beings

Humans

Knows

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Agreement

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Artist

Asylums

Attention

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Broken

Cases

Character

Children

Circles

Common

Community

Converting

Country

Creativity

Dancer

Darkness

Definitions

Destination

Destiny

Dream

Enemy

Eye

Fate

Fighting

Flower

Ghetto

Giving

Gold

Grief

Grows

Hands

Heart

Highest

Home

Homeless

Human Beings

Humanity

Humans

Hungry

Imagination

Important

Impossible

Individual

Inner Darkness

Inspirational

Kids

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Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri

a dream can be the highest point of a life

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.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.

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.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

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