# Quote — Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

> Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

- Author: [Ben Okri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri.md)
- Book: [Dangerous Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#Dangerous_Love_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love/bad-things-will

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> Quiet people are the most dangerous.

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> Our society is a battlefield. Poverty, corruption and hunger are the bullets. Bad governments are the bombs.

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> So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

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