Ben Okri Quotes

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

You don't know where life takes you.

I always say it is not the arrival; it is the journey.

Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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.

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.