Ben Okri Quotes

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Whatever miseries this war brings upon us, it is making us wiser, and, we trust, better. Wiser, for we are learning our weakness, our narrowness, our selfishness, our ignorance, in lessons of sorrow and shame. Better, because all that is noble in men and women is demanded by the time, and our people are rising to the standard the time calls for. For this is the question the hour is putting to each of us: Are you ready, if need be, to sacrifice all that you have and hope for in this world, that the generations to follow you may inherit a whole country whose natural condition shall be peace, and not a broken province which must live under the perpetual threat, if not in the constant presence, of war and all that war brings with it? If we are all ready for this sacrifice, battles may be lost, but the campaign and its grand object must be won.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.

Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.