Top 100 Sejal Badani Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There should be a rule somewhere, somehow, that happiness is the default, the fallback for every situation. Every turn, every twist should lead toward a better beginning.”

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2. “Maybe today, in helping to ease others’ pain, you ease a little of your own?”

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3. “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.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “In Indian mythology, when the moon covers the sun, darkness has the power to cover your life.” Slowly, he makes his way out of the room and toward the exit. “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.”

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6. “There should be a rule somewhere, somehow, that happiness is the default, the fallback for every situation. Every turn, every twist should lead toward a better beginning. There’s no light at the end of the tunnel; instead, the entire path is paved with sunshine.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “Your grandmother, Amisha, always said to me, ‘Ravi, when you are next to the earth, you can hear her secrets.”

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9. “The third eye focuses on God, and the bindi signifies piety, reminding you to keep God at the center of your thoughts.”

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10. “History shows us we need labels to help define our place. For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. For every person who stands superior, another must be inferior. But what does it say of us as a human race when we push others down for our own needs?”

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11. “Peace became my motivation, and I did everything to maintain.”

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12. “I watch them, wondering about the love that binds. In the name of love, people do extraordinary things. Sacrifice their time, money, even themselves for another. Parents dedicate their lives to raising children, work endless hours to provide; siblings love their sister or brother as if they were one instead of two. Here in the hospital, I see love displayed every day. Family members offering whatever they have in the hopes it is enough to heal.”

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13. “Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you meet a stranger who holds the piece of you that has been missing.”

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14. “I imagine another falling star, but this time I don’t make a wish. Instead I smile, understanding that 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.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “It’s impossible to give someone the world. You can show them glimpses of yours, hope they join you in it, but to give them the world means you have to be willing to give up your own.”

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17. “What if tradition is just an excuse to keep things as they always have been?”

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18. “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.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “I can’t,” I whisper, wanting to more than anything I’ve wanted in my life. 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.”

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21. “It is a funny thing when you have believed the worst about yourself your entire life. No matter what anyone says, you are the strongest voice of opposition, insisting to anyone who will listen that they are wrong, that you really are worthless.”

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22. “Hope – for such a simple word its meaning is profound.”

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23. “Amisha offered the unyielding woman a smile. “I will also advise that when they travel in their stories, they respect the people they meet and the values they hold. Their way of life is not for us to judge but our opportunity to learn.” She ignored the widening of the teacher’s eyes and ended with, “And to never forget that when you offer a hand of respect, you will in turn be welcomed.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “A family should be connected by love and appreciation for what every person brings into the relationship. A unity of hearts and souls, where fear has no place.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “The reasons don’t matter. What’s done is done. Nothing can change the past.”

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29. “I once interviewed a New Age guru who spoke about how unfinished business from ancestors can trickle down to generations twice, even three times, removed. Actions in the present can help to correct the mistakes made in the past. And even if there is no absolution to be had, an understanding may help keep the same mistake from being repeated.”

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30. “But the core of the person, what makes them who they are, that never changes.”

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31. “Each image serves as a reminder that a light shines through so many people, and yet, no matter how far I run, I cannot seem to escape my shadow.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “I can’t help but think when we have nothing else, when there are no answers, faith is our greatest ally.”

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34. “I imagine I am stronger than I used to be, more resilient.”

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35. “The dichotomy of my life – want what I can never have, reject it because I am too afraid.”

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36. “They went around the room, Marin murmuring “Grapes,” but offering no reason when it was her turn. But when another girl said pineapple, Marin paid attention, curious about the choice. “Because it’s prickly on the outside and impossible to cut through. But once you get to the fruit, it’s worth the trouble,” the girl explained. “So don’t always believe what you see.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “Heroes are not born or created. They become so in the passing moments of life.”

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39. “It is an odd thing to share burdens with another human being. You imagine it will lessen your own burden, ease some of the ache that sits in you like lead. But it almost does the opposite.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “I watch all of it, amazed at the human mind and ability to make a home no matter the circumstances. These children, surviving with so little, are more resilient than I can ever hope to be.”

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42. “That’s what relationships are about, right? Seeing the good first and then slowly piecing in the bad until the full picture reveals itself.”

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43. “My soul must be as dark, if not darker, to be who I am.”

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44. “Shame fills me at revealing this new family secret. One that can be added to the skeletons already spilling into our lives.”

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45. “Her voice gets louder as she calls to me, the desperation in her voice seeping through the fog that is clouding my mind.”

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46. “It is always the strongest and best that suffer,” Nita says, clasping Ranee’s hand in her own. “As if God knows that you have strength the rest of us lack.”

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47. “The past, no matter how definite, does not have the power to determine the future.”

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48. “It both shames and gives me pause that I have lived my life on the sidelines, never knowing or caring that others live in such misfortune.”

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49. “I want to explain to her that loneliness isn’t remedied by people around me, that my loneliness is an integral part of me.”

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50. “When you lose someone there is a grieving process. Shock, anger, despair, among a multitude of other emotions. Every one of them wrapping around you like a vise. No room to breathe, to think, or to understand. But what about when someone is alive yet wants nothing to do with you? Is there a mourning process in place then, or do you hold on to hope like a life raft in the abyss?”

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