Quotes of Ben Okri

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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.

- Ben Okri

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“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Let me take you from Miss to Mrs ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ”

- Ranata Suzuki

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh