"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

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Ben Okri

#Miserable Quotes #Homeless Quotes #Wit Quotes

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”

Source : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
“Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Donâ€™t feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreamsâ€”some of us realize it and some don't. Youâ€™re not doing anyone any favors by living small. Embrace these truths and step up. The world is waiting.”
“Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Feb 12, 2012
“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics
“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.”
“We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.”
“... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.”

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