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Our Lives Quotes by Ben Okri
- The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we…
- I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has…
- 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,…
More Our Lives Quotes
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone… — Daisaku Ikeda
- Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of… — Bruce C. Hafen
- What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of… — A. C. Benson
- We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our… — Guy Finley