Ben Okri Quotes

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Imagination creates reality.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

I really believe in speaking things into existence.

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

I think all of us create our own miracles.