272 Quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family’s name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family’s fame.

Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable.

I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously.

Each desire in the world is different, as is each love.

Buddha’s Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader’s attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state.

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.