Ben Okri Quotes

“Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.”

“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.”

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”

“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”

“We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.”

“a dream can be the highest point of a life”

“Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.”

“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line…. That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”

“We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.”