Ben Okri Quotes

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.

Every person can reach a full life.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.