Frases de Ben Okri

„La ley es simple. Cada experiencia se repite o sufre hasta que la experimente de manera adecuada y completa la primera vez.“

—  Ben Okri

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

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: Astonishing the Gods

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

—  Ben Okri

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

—  Ben Okri

„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

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

—  Ben Okri, The Famished Road

Fuente: The Famished Road

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

—  Ben Okri, The Famished Road

Fuente: The Famished Road

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

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: A Time for New Dreams

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

—  Ben Okri, The Famished Road

Fuente: The Famished Road

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

—  Ben Okri

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

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: Birds of Heaven

„Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories“

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: Birds of Heaven

„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.“

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: Birds of Heaven

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

—  Ben Okri

Fuente: Tales of Freedom