Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

But it is not reason that governs love.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.