"Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the……" — Ben Okri
"Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected."
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89 Quotes by Ben Okri
Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. 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:…
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite…
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I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would…
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More Destiny Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get…
— Charles Barkley
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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