Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things.

You get successful for the person that you are, not for the way you look. If you feel good, you can conquer the world, so you need to feel right inside.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

You are better than you think.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

If you believe in yourself, then everything is going to look great on you.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I think my spirit is far greater than it's ever been.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.