Quotes from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

Never choose something because it's easier.

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.

Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands.

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Love. There's no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word.

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