Sejal Badani > Quotes

“Never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“home is not a place or a lifestyle, but the state of your heart and all the people who take their place in it.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“When you give a piece of yourself to someone, count on them to hold it safe, you become vulnerable. You depend on them, but they may not be the person you expected, the one you were sure could carry you. Then the disappointment becomes a burden to bear. It is better to keep yourself at a distance, never getting too close.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“The past, no matter how definite, does not have the power to determine the future.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“Everyone must reach a point in their life when they stop running. When it is easier to stand still than to keep being chased, even if the person chasing you is only in your head.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“But fear is a terrible thing. It paralyzes you with the expectation of the worst happening, never allowing room for something better, something that gives rather than takes away.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“But it is not always the sun that must shine to have light. In darkness, we must seek out the stars. Their brightness has its own power.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you meet a stranger who holds the piece of you that has been missing.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“I can’t help but think when we have nothing else, when there are no answers, faith is our greatest ally.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Some moments in your life you wish never happened; you would do anything to take them back. They make you realize you are not all-powerful. That there is a force stronger than you at work. In those moments, you fall to your knees and abdicate all sense of power. Offer your hand and ask for help. If you are lucky, you will feel the touch of something or someone to help you rise. If not, you stay kneeling, left all alone.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“Heroes are not born or created. They become so in the passing moments of life. When something or someone demands you be more than you have been, when you must put aside your own needs and what is best for you to fight for another, no matter the cost.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“a mother cannot give birth to a child and not lose a piece of herself. The child takes a part of the parent with them, holding it as their own. Whether it be their heart or soul, they are now connected for always.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“those who leave have a reason that is more powerful than the one to stay.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“You should be with someone who can make you happy.” My heart breaks as I set him free. With all the love I have ever felt for him, I whisper, “You deserve that.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“With that knowledge comes her acceptance that to have the life she wants, she has to repaint the painting.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“Even though not every story ends with a happy ending or begins with tragedy, along the way there are moments of both. And those moments don’t define you or even break you— they are simply parts of the whole.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“same blood runs in every human on the earth. You just have to see past the variations in skin and culture.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“What he did to you can never be undone. But don’t let it color your life. Don’t let his actions or his way of living become your truth.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“you cannot keep someone who has already left you behind.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“The third eye focuses on God, and the bindi signifies piety, reminding you to keep God at the center of your thoughts.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“With humility may I reap my own power, and at the end of the journey, I hope I learn when to stand small so others can feel tall.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“The unknown is the hardest. Which might explain why we try so hard to rule our worlds. It is the only hope we have to make sense of our lives.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“I want to explain to her that loneliness isn’t remedied by people around me, that my loneliness is an integral part of me.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“A dream may be the only window to the unknown.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Your grandmother, Amisha, always said to me, ‘Ravi, when you are next to the earth, you can hear her secrets.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“hindsight is a vicious thing. It mocks you with what should have been done. Teases with how things could still be. When left with ashes, you wonder how you could have prevented the fire.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“But laws are slow to change what is in people’s hearts.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“He told me once that people will forget many things, but they will never forget a person who shows them kindness.”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret

“Heroes are not born or created. They become so in the passing moments of life.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“What if tradition is just an excuse to keep things as they always have been?”
― Sejal Badani, The Storyteller's Secret