Famous Quotes

"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 on Inspirational

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• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

  Helen Keller on Inspirational

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

  Aristotle Onassis on Inspirational

• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

  Robert Louis Stevenson on Inspirational

• "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

  Bill Copeland on Inspirational

• "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

  Joseph Campbell on Inspirational

More quotes by Ben Okri

• "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

• "I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people."

• "Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

• "The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader."

• "I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it."