Ben Okri citations

“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.”

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

“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 suffering.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”