Ben Okri Quotes

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best. Maybe this was all meant to be and maybe Big Brother worked as a catalyst in a bigger issue like racism, which was important to be broached. Maybe it had to happen this way and I'm glad that I could help it.

Life always brings you what you need.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Life brings you exactly what you need.

The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

We don't have to push each other out of the way, because the universe will push us out of the way, or push us towards our goals when it's time.