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Love Quotes by Ben Okri
- Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
- I know that human beings are capable of anything.
- If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we…
- 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.
- 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.
- To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
- This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
- 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…
- There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their…
- a dream can be the highest point of a life
- If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
- What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
- 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.
- We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact…
- The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of…
- If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — 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
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide