272 Quotes by 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.

And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean.

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn’t understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.

I don’t agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done.

Maybe it was that sense that comes to us all at some point in the growing-up process, that we are separate from our parents and must suffer our own lives, with our own sorrows. Or maybe it was something simpler, a childish spite, Let her hurt like I’m hurting. And then the light changed and she started driving again.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path, All they do is trip you up.

Perhaps we are always alone, from the time we leave the safety of our mothers’ wombs until the time Waheguru gathers us to Himself.

Tomorrow is another day. I’ve got plenty of things to worry about right now.