Ben Okri Quotes

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Journey is my life now.

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn't always pretty.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.