Banerjee Quotes & Sayings

There are so few who 'walk the talk'..
No wonder the World is plagued with 'Talk Obesity' and 'Walk Anorexia'..
Walk the Talk Amnesia? — Abha Maryada Banerjee

One should clearly know that " Every thought that one thinks and every action based on that thought, is taking us either closer to our principal purpose or away from it" Watch out then ....as thoughts become realities! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Unless you lose yourself in the chaos, you can never find your peace. — Sujit Banerjee

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Each day has a color, a smell. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

All the stars stay hidden behind the daylight. — Reetwika Banerjee

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

In every siutation , there is a FINE LINE between what is right and what is not so right.THAT is the MOMENT when one has to stop and look which way to go!! These MAGICAL MOMENTS determine the DIRECTION of our lives ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

And the mother, who through all the years of her hardship had never shed a tear, wept at his trust and her deception. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Between Practicality and Spirituality lies Rationality!
And when the lessons 'appear', the 'intensity and clarity' can be jaw dropping ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

OPTIMISM is to man , what the Sun is to vegetation ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I prefer to 'exceed' my own expectations of me...I feel 'liberated' when I know it is only ME that can ACT and DO..!! Expect good things from you, expect the unusual, expect some madness, expect good friends, expect everything that you want..it is only you who should expect and only you who should do! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

For example, people who don't know how to drive may nevertheless want to drive their car. But society feels that it is better if they don't, because of what it means for the rest of us. A free market in driver's licenses obviously cannot solve this problem. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

The concept of God is so 'ambiguous' ...
God came, waited, looked around and went back..confused! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

You have to find it,no one else will find it for you !...... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Misunderstanding ... when the silence is not understood. — Upasana Banerjee

All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Mistakes are not be apologized for each time..
That is a matter of choice in conscience or principles..
Instead mistakes need to be corrected each time..
There is no choice when it is about correction..treat it as an absolute! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him - into the very earth and air and water - until there's nothing else. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I am a 'professional word seller'..I sell 'WORDS' for a 'living'...
'LIVING' with 'empowering' words is a 'Choice' we make..
'CHOICE' comes via the meaning we give to words we use..
'MEANING' comes from understanding 'life'... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Emotion ... a weird sense of human ... strong handling make us numb ... loose handling make us dumb ... — Upasana Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner. — Mamata Banerjee

Success has NO Rules except ONE..
It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Hey Chuck....Nothing ventured, nothing gained! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

When DEATH stares in our faces..
We can just 'stare' back at it!
'All' falls flat in the deathly moments!
No explanations, no reasons, no justifications sound good enough!! Acceptance alone stands out as the truth! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

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

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When we PEEL off LAYERS of SOCIAL CONDITIONING and the need to live upto that EXPECTATION..
The most beautiful 'creation' surfaces ...The REAL YOU !!!
To be real, it needs courage..Our biggest aim should be to build that COURAGE..
Being 'that' REAL is our biggest POSSIBILITY...also the biggest RESPONSIBILITY! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When we 'know' what is totally unacceptable..we learn to say 'No'..
Knowing the 'No' gives clarity about what to say 'Yes' to.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Breaking rules and piercing myths..just a matter of mind and time.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do. — Mamata Banerjee

Alas,I have not come to you...
And,you have not come to me..
The 'path' is crossed,on the 'way'..
To 'discover' You and Me.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Made to the other women when I joined them at night. 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. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Kids learn from EMULATING their elders, not by being told..
We ought to teach our children to get EXCITED about life..
And not PAINT their minds with OUR potrayal of the World..
This asks us to LIVE that excitement,if we already don't..
We will be doing them a HUGE FAVOR! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Some days you feel like doing absolutely 'nothing'..
Take 'massive action' — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep. — Mamata Banerjee

But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives, from the comfort of our couch in our safe and sanitary home. Aren't we, those who live in the rich world, the constant beneficiaries of a paternalism now so thoroughly embedded into the system that we hardly notice it? — Abhijit V. Banerjee

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again. — Jeet Banerjee

I am my biggest mouthpiece..Saves a lot of money on PR! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want. — Jeet Banerjee

9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants. — Jeet Banerjee

At every 'turning point' in life.
Part of our 'journey' would come to an end! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I am an 'expert' on life!
Does it mean I 'know' it all?
No, it means quite the opposite..
For, I do not know, so I have to 'live' it all..
That makes an 'expert'! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

If the teachers and the parents do not believe that the child can cross the hump and get into the steep part of the S - curve, they may as well not try: The teacher ignores the children who have fallen behind and the parent stops taking interest in their education. But this behavior creates a poverty trap even where none exists in the first place. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

Some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories ... tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us . — Upasana Banerjee

Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

WOMEN..get the word 'Compromise' out of your lives..You are a 'Value Driver'..Be proud of that ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable
but I always was so, only I never knew it! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Saying NO is important,
HOW we say NO is CRUCIAL.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

All your THOUGHTS, are either an 'investment' to your well-being or a 'cost' to your well- being! Are your investments growing or the costs are too high..Think about it ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Are Human Problems insoluble? Human Chaos necessary?? Answer: Personally I refuse to have problems! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Would you like to come in?" I said. My hands were sweaty. Inside my chest an ocean heaved and crashed and heaved again.
"I would," he said. I saw his Adam's apple jerk as he swallowed. "Thank you."
I was distracted by that thank you. We had moved past the language of formality long ago. It was strange to relearn it with each other. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. — 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 the world. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus. — Jeet Banerjee

Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People are ARITHEMTIC....There are those who DIVIDE and SUBTRACT .And then there are those that ADD and MULTIPLY....Which Arithmetic are you and what arithmetic do you have around you ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll. — Upasana Banerjee

The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of representation, the space of fracture, of multiplicity (as opposed to unity) becomes a powerful place and one from which the most radical ideas can emerge. — Ria Banerjee

Leadership- The Noun and the Verb of a Leader - The amalgamation of WHO you are as a person and HOW you conduct yourself becomes crucial...you have to play the noun and verb both !!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I am DROPOUT! I dropped out of the WORLD, to drop into ME and that is the World I enjoy ! Happiness — Abha Maryada Banerjee

To upset the delicate axis of giving and receiving on which our lives are held precarious. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Pain, which is ultimately only like itself. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

THOUGHT is precious!! I would rather think 'NOTHING' than think 'NONSENSE' ! Save the 'Thought Space' until I can think better !! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

We are far MORE than our current set of circumstances...only if we 'dare to dream'! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Sometimes,things end even before they get started..
Pretty clear, they were not meant to happen or begin..
Cut the disappointment and look it in the face..
Even if it hurts,force a smile and lock it away..
For all the truth, there is nothing you can say.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee