Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“...each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Never choose something because it's easier.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Dear Anju, for whom love means that we must want the same thing, always. That we must be the same. She has…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni