I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
Ben OkriThe 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 OkriThe road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
Ben OkriWe have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Ben OkriIf we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
Ben OkriWe plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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