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Inspirational Quotes by Ben Okri
- Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
- In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road…
- Creativity is the art of the impossible
- People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
- I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
- I know that human beings are capable of anything.
- 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…
- I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
- Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great,…
- The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
- To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
- I was going to be a scientist.
- The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
- To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
- This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
- Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
- a dream can be the highest point of a life
- What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
- Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
- Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
- We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento