Ben Okri Quotes

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Your skin and your face is a mirror to your soul. When people ask me why I'm looking so good, I reply, 'My heart is happy.'

My life includes much meditation and good energy, so my mind will stay busy.

I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best.

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

Gratitude is the the energy of faith.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible. (Charles Haanel)

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.