A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
– Ben Okri
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- I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you. – Ben Okri
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- Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can’t even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick. – Meg Cabot
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- If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. – Debasish Mridha
- Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true. – MF Moonzajer
- Storytellers don’t show, they tell. I’m sticking with that. – Ashly Lorenzana
- Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve. – Debra Fileta
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
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- He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. – James Joyce
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- If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn’t you also choose healthy people for your life? – Ramani Durvasula
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- A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person. – Steven Magee
- Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can’t tell people. And it will answer you with things people can’t tell you. – Paul McCartney
- Be confident but with a leashed ego. – Ben Tolosa