Rupi Kaur has a way of entwining gentle emotions with powerful words. I handpicked the 320 very best Rupi Kaur quotes that will stay with you forever!
Author’s Choice: 10 Best Rupi Kaur Quotes
1. “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
3. “you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
5. “you’ve touched me
without even
touching me.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
7. “we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not”
― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “give to those who have nothing to give to you -” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
9. “for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
10. “To be soft is to be powerful” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Famous Rupi Kaur Quotes
1. “the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “the thing worth holding on to would not have let go” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
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3. “Stay strong through your pain. Grow flowers from it.” ― Rupi Kaur
4. “It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.” ― Rupi Kaur
5. “Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry” ― Rupi Kaur
6. “Sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed.” ― Rupi Kaur
7. “You deserve to be completely found in your surroundings. Not lost within them.” ― Rupi Kaur
8. “I know it feels like tomorrow will never come and today will be the most difficult day to get through. The hurt will pass as it always does.” ― Rupi Kaur
9. “I find hair beautiful when a woman wears it like a garden on her skin.” ― Rupi Kaur
10. “Calling myself a woman makes me utterly whole and complete.” ― Rupi Kaur
11. “Don’t tell me my women aren’t as beautiful as the ones in your country.” ― Rupi Kaur
12. “Accept yourself as you were designed.” ― Rupi Kaur
13. “I’m sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains.” ― Rupi Kaur
14. “If the hurt comes, so will the happiness.” ― Rupi Kaur
15. “I have what I have and I am happy.” ― Rupi Kaur
16. “We are all born so beautiful. The greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.” ― Rupi Kaur
17. “The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it.” ― Rupi Kaur
18. “If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.” ― Rupi Kaur
19. “You have to stop searching for why. At some point you have to leave it alone.” ― Rupi Kaur
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20. “I am equal to any man even though the state of this world screams to me I am not.” ― Rupi Kaur
21. “he asks me what i do i tell him i work for a small company that makes packaging for— he stops me mid sentence — no not what you do to pay the bills, what drives you crazy, what keeps you up at night” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
22. “you break women in like shoes” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
23. “they leave
and act like it never happened
they come back
and act like they never left” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
24. “we are all born
so beautiful
the greatest tragedy is
being convinced we are not” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
25. “I am not my worst days
i am not what happened to me
– reminder” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
26. “i tried to find it
but there was no answer
at the end of the last conversation
– closure” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
27. “today i saw myself for the first time when i dusted off the mirror of my mind and the woman looking back took my breath away who was this beautiful beastling this extra-celestial earthling i touched my face and my reflection touched the woman of my dreams all her gorgeous smirking back at me my knees surrendered to the earth as i wept and sighed at how i’d gone my whole life being myself but not seeing myself” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
28. “something about the phrase – something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
29. “now we finally have the money
to cross everything off our bucket lists
but those lists are collecting dust
in some lost corridor of our minds
sometimes when i get lonely
i still search for them
i’d give anything to go back
and do the foolish things we used to do
i feel the most present in your presence
when we’re laughing so hard
the past slides off our shoulders
and worries of the future slip away
the truth is i couldn’t survive without my friends
they know exactly what i need
before i even know that i need
the way we hold each other is just different” ― Rupi Kaur
30. “love is understanding we have the power to hurt one another but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
Empowering Rupi Kaur Quotes
1. “i am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “if he can’t help but
degrade other women
when they’re not looking
if toxicity is central to his language
he could hold you
in his lap and be soft
honey
that man could feed you sugar and
douse you in rose water
but that still could not
make him sweet
-if you want to know what the type of man he is” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that” ― Rupi Kaur
4. “the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
5. “we all move forward when
we recognize how resilient
and striking the women
around us are” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “you tell me
i am not like most girls
and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
something about the phrase – something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
like i am supposed to be proud you picked me
as if i should be relieved you think
i am better than them” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
7. “a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “i will not have you
build me into your life
when
what i want is to
build a life with you
– the difference” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
9. “Removing all the hair off your body is okay if that’s what you want to do.” ― Rupi Kaur
10. “You were a dragon long before he came around and said you could fly.” ― Rupi Kaur
11. “Keeping all the hair on your body is okay if that’s what you want to do.” ― Rupi Kaur
12. “From now on I will say things like you are resilient or you are extraordinary not because I don’t think you’re pretty but because you are so much more than that.” ― Rupi Kaur
13. “my heart aches for sisters more than anything
it aches for women helping women
like flowers ache for spring” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
14. “i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me
thinking
what can i do
to make this mountain taller
so the women after me
can see farther
– legacy” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
15. “I am my own woman and I belong wholly to myself.” ― Rupi Kaur
16. “never feel guilty for starting again” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
17. “can you hear the women who came before me five hundred thousand voices ringing through my neck as if this were all a stage built for them i can’t tell which parts of me are me and which parts are them can you see them taking over my spirit shaking out of my limbs to do everything they couldn’t do when they were alive” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
18. “on days i could not move it was women who came to water my feet until i was strong enough to stand it was women who nourished me back to life” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
19. “I am loving myself out of the dark.” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
20. “My twenties are the warm-up for what I’m really about to do. Wait till you see me in my thirties now that will be a proper introduction to the nasty. wild. woman in me.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur Quotes About Life
1. “isn’t it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn’t.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
2. “most importantly love
like it’s the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this
means nothing
this page
where you’re sitting
your degree
your job
the money
nothing even matters
except love and human connection
who you loved
and how deeply you loved them
how you touched the people around you
and how much you gave them” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “we began
with honesty
let us end
in it too
– us” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “Living is difficult. It is difficult for everybody. and it is at that moment when living feels like crawling through a pin-sized hole. that we must resist the urge of succumbing to bad memories. refuse to bow before bad months or bad years.” ― Rupi Kaur
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5. “i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
6. “i am
made of water
of course i am emotional” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
7. “i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.
but then.
there are some nights i imagine what i might do if you showed up. how if you walked into the room this very second every awful thing you’ve ever done would be tossed out the closet window and all the love would rise up again. it would pour through my eyes as if it never really left in the first place. as if it’s been practicing how to stay silent so long only so it could be this loud on your arrival. can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn’t leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
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9. “why am i always running in circles between wanting you to want me and when you want me deciding it is too emotionally naked for me to live with why do i make loving me so difficult as if you should never have to witness the ghosts i have tucked under my breast i used to be more open when it came to matters like this my love – if only we’d met when i was that willing” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers: Rupi Kaur
10. “Half blade and half silk, difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
11. “It isn’t what we left behind
That breaks me
It’s what we could’ve built
Had we stayed” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
12. “i hardened under the last loss. it took something human out of me. i used to be so deeply emotional i’d crumble on demand. but now the water has made its exit. of course i care about the ones around me. i’m just struggling to show it. a wall is getting in the way. i used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. now. i am. so strong. that nothing shakes me. and all i dream is to soften.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
13. “what if
there isn’t enough time
to give her what she deserves
do you think
if i begged the sky hard enough
my mother’s soul would
return to me as my daughter
so i can give her
the comfort she gave me
my whole life” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
14. “my god
is not waiting inside a church
or sitting above the temple’s steps
my god
is the refugee’s breath as she’s running
is living in the starving child’s belly
is the heartbeat of the protest
my god
does not rest between pages
written by holy men
my god
lives between the sweaty thighs
of women’s bodies sold for money
was last seen washing the homeless man’s feet
my god
is not as unreachable as
they’d like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
15. “the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time
– together” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
16. “do not beg for what does not want to stay” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
17. “tell them i was the warmest place you knew and you turned me cold” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
18. “there is a conversation
happening inside you
pay deep attention
to what your inner world
is saying” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
19. “love made the danger
in you look like safety” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
20. “I have survived far too much to go quietly” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
Rupi Kaur Love Quotes
1. “nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me
-the perfect date” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn’t call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite
– how he touches me” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “What I miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn’t know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. It was a reflection of everything I gave you. coming back to me. how did I not see that? How did I sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was I that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way I needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these things after you left.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
5. “you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting – letter to my future lover” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
6. “love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
7. “no
it won’t
be love at
first sight when
we meet it’ll be love
at first remembrance cause
i’ve seen you in my mother’s eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i’d want to raise my son to be like” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “I’d be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
9. “don’t mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it’s that simple” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
10. “what am i to you he asks
I put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
I’ve ever had
in human form” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
11. “i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
12. “you said. if it is meant to be. fate will bring us back together. for a second i wonder if you are really that naive. if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess. as if it is not the choices we make. who taught you that. tell me. who convinced you. you’ve been given a heart and a mind that isn’t yours to use. that your actions do not define what will become of you. i want to scream and shout it’s us you fool. we’re the only ones that can bring us back together. but instead i sit quietly. smiling softly through quivering lips thinking. isn’t it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn’t.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
13. “Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I’m your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don’t you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
14. “i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
i want to feel so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of
us combined
could set
it on fire” ― Rupi Kaur
15. “you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all other loves seem
irrelevant” ― Rupi Kaur
16. “At the end of the day, all this means nothing. This page, where you’re sitting, your degree, your job, the money, nothing even matters except love and human connection.” ― Rupi Kaur
17. “I do not need the kind of love that is draining, I want someone who energizes me.” ― Rupi Kaur
18. “he says
i am sorry i am not an easy person to want
i look at him surprised
who said i wanted easy
i don’t crave easy
i crave goddamn difficult” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
19. “you deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
20. “love is not cruel
we are cruel
love is not a game
we have made a game
out of love” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
21. “i need someone
who knows struggle
as well as i do
someone
willing to hold my feet in their lap
on days it is too difficult to stand
the type of person who gives
exactly what i need
before i even know i need it
the type of lover who hears me
even when i do not speak
is the type of understanding
i demand
– the type of lover i need” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
22. “how do you turn
a forest fire like me
so soft i turn into
running water” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
23. “love does not look like a person
love is our actions
love is giving all we can
even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake
love is understanding
we have the power to hurt one another
but we are going to do everything in our power
to make sure we don’t
love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve
and when someone shows up
saying they will provide it as you do
but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you
love is knowing who to choose” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
24. “Together we are an endless conversation” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
25. “rise
said the moon
and the new day came” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
26. “I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
27. “you cannot walk in and out of me like a revolving door i have too many miracles happening inside me to be your convenient option – not your hobby” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
28. “i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
29. “our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry – women of color” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
30. “love is knowing who to choose” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
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Rupi Kaur Self Love Quotes
1. “how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once
-when you ask if we can still be friends” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
4. “i struggle so deeply
to understand
how someone can
pour their entire soul
blood and energy
into someone
without wanting
anything in
return
-i will have to wait till i’m a mother” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
5. “do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you
-you cannot make it stay” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “did you think i was a city
big enough for a weekend getaway
i am the town surrounding it
the one you’ve never heard of
but always pass through
there are no neon lights here
no skyscapers or statues
but there is thunder
for i make bridges tremble
i am not street meat i am homemade jam
thick enough to cut the sweetest
thing you lips will touch
i am not police sirens
i am the crackle of a fireplace
i’d burn you and you still
couldn’t take your eyes off of me
cause i’d look so beautiful doing it
you’d blush
i am not a hotel room i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don’t come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
7. “he only whispers i love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants. this is where you must understand the difference between want and need—you may want that boy but you certainly don’t need him” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
9. “a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
– responsibility” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
10. “I didn’t leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.” ― Rupi Kaur
11. “Accept that you deserve more than painful love.” ― Rupi Kaur
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12. “You are your own soul mate.” ― Rupi Kaur
13. “Hair, if it was not supposed to be there, would not be growing on our bodies in the first place.” ― Rupi Kaur
14. “Most importantly, love like it’s the only thing you know how.” ― Rupi Kaur
15. “Losing you was the becoming of myself.” ― Rupi Kaur
16. “I am learning how to love him by loving myself.” ― Rupi Kaur
17. “I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me. I want to be full on my own. I want to be so complete I could light a whole city and then I want to have you.” ― Rupi Kaur
18. “You were mine and my life was full. You are no longer mine and my life is full.” ― Rupi Kaur
19. “you may want that boy but you certainly don’t need him” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
20. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” ― Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur Quotes About Healing
1. “stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “That is the thing about selfish people. they
gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.
and after all this. after all of the taking. the nerve. isn’t it sad and funny how people have more guts these days to undress you with their fingers than they do pick up the phone and call. apologize. for the loss. and this is how you lose her.
– selfish” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
5. “you look at me and cry
everything hurts
I hold you and whisper
but everything can heal” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself” ― rupi kaur, milk and honey
7. “the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist
simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “you are in the habit
of co-depending
on people to
make up for what
you think you lack
who tricked you
into believing
another person
was meant to complete you
when the most they can do is complement” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
9. “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives” ― Rupi Kaur
10. “i didn’t know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
11. “Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.” ― Rupi Kaur
12. “It is part of the human experience to feel pain. Do not be afraid. Open yourself to it.” ― Rupi Kaur
13. “Your art is not about how many people like your work. Your art is about if your heart likes your work. If your soul likes your work.” ― Rupi Kaur
14. “Who tricked you into believing another person was meant to complete you when the most they can do is complement you.”
15. “losing you was the becoming of myself” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
16. “accept that you deserve more
than painful love
life is moving
the healthiest thing
for your heart is
to move with it” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
17. “i can’t tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same
i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
18. “well i tell her
i don’t think love is him anymore
if love was him
he would be here wouldn’t he
if he was the one for me
wouldn’t he be the one sitting across from me
if love was him it would have been simple
i don’t think love is him anymore i repeat
i think love never was
i think i just wanted something
was ready to give myself to something
i believed was bigger than myself
and when i saw someone
who probably fit the part
i made it very much my intention
to make him my counterpart.” ― Rupi Kaur
19. “when it came to listening
my mother taught me silence
if you are drowning their voice with yours
how will you hear them she asked
when it came to speaking
she said do it with commitment
every word you say
is your own responsibility
when it came to being
she said be tender and tough at once
you need to be vulnerable to live fully
but rough enough to survive it all
when it came to choosing
she asked me to be thankful
for the choices i had that
she never had the privilege of making
– lessons from mumma” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
20. “even though we were both under the same roof of that coffee shop. I was still solar systems away from you.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
21. “yes
it is possible
to hate and love someone
at the same time
i do it to myself
every day” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
22. “i am sorry this world
could not keep you safe
may your journey home
be a soft and peaceful one
– rest in peace” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
23. “i do not weep
because I’m unhappy
i weep because I have everything
yet I’m unhappy” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
24. “I learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. I learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft.” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
25. “to heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
26. “you are a mirror
if you continue to starve yourself of love
you’ll only meet people who’ll starve you too
if you soak yourself in love
the universe will hand you those
who’ll love you too
– a simple math” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
27. “The universe took its time on you
Crafted you to offer the world
Something different from everyone else
When you doubt
How you were created
You doubt an energy greater than us both
-irreplaceable” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
28. “i get so lost
in where i want to go
i forget that the place i’m in
is already quite magical.” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
29. “how can i be so cruel to myself when i’m doing the best i can – be gentle” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
30. “I will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her
– always evolving” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
Rupi Kaur Inspirational Quotes
1. “bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing
our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what’s proven most difficult
in being human” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “this morning
I told the flowers
what I’d do for you
and they blossomed” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
4. “i have survived far too much to go quietly
let a meteor take me
call the thunder for backup
my death will be grand
the land will crack
the sun will eat itself
– the day I leave” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
5. “I will no longer
compare my path to others
-I refuse to do a disservice to my life” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
6. “it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.” ― Rupi Kaur
7. “you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting – letter to my future lover” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
8. “i always get myself into this mess.
i always let him tell me i am beautiful and half believe it. i always jump thinking he will catch me at the fall. i am hopelessly a lover, and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me” ― Rupi Kaur
9. “my favorite thing about you is your smell
you smell like
earth
herbs
gardens
a little more
human than the rest of us” ― Rupi Kaur
10. “she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her” ― Rupi Kaur
11. “i miss the days my friends
knew every mundane detail about my life
and i knew every ordinary detail about theirs
adulthood has starved me of that consistency
that us
the walks around the block
the long conversations when we were
too lost in the moment to care what time it was
when we won and celebrated
when we failed and celebrated harder
when we were just kids
now we have our very important jobs
that fill up our very busy schedules
we compare calendars just to plan coffee dates
that one of us eventually cancels
cause adulthood is being too exhausted
to leave our apartment most days
i miss knowing i once belonged
to a group of people bigger than myself
that belonging made life easier to live
– friendship nostalgia” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
12. “i put off everything that
won’t bring me closer to my dreams
as if the things i’m putting off
are not the dream themselves” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
13. “capitalism got inside my head
and made me think my only value
is how much i produce
for people to consume
capitalism got inside my head
and made me think
i am of worth
as long as i am working” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
See also: 150 I Deserve Better Quotes To Remind You Of Your Worth
14. “i am trusting the uncertainty
and believing i will
end up somewhere
right and good” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
15. “Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.” ― Rupi Kaur
16. “it’s easy to love
the nice things about ourselves
but true self-love is
embracing the difficult parts
that live in all of us
– acceptance” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
17. “make it a point
to love yourself
as fiercely as you do other people
– commitment” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
18. “my mind
my body
and i
all live in one place.” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
19. “i want to leave this place knowing
i did something with my body
other than trying to
make it look perfect” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
20. “you lose everything
when you don’t love yourself
– and gain everything when you do” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
21. “they convinced me
i only had a few good years left
before i was replaced by a girl younger than me
as though men yield power with age
but women grow into irrelevance
they can keep their lies
for i have just gotten started
i feel as though i just left the womb
my twenties are the warm-up
for what i’m really about to do
wait till you see me in my thirties
now that will be a proper introduction
to the nasty. wild. woman in me.
how can i leave before the party’s started
rehearsals begin at forty
i ripen with age
i do not come with an expiration date
and now
for the main event
curtains up at fifty
let’s begin the show” ― Rupi Kaur
22. “you are lonely
but you are not alone
– there is a difference” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
See also: 140 Quotes About Solitude That Will Make Sense To You
23. “i’m breathing aren’t i
that’s gotta be a sign that
the universe is on my side
if i’ve made it this far
i can make it all the way” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
24. “there are years in me
that have not slept” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
25. “You are a soul. a world. a portal. a spirit. you are never alone. you are organs and blood and flesh and muscle. a colony of miracles weaving into each other.” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
26. “if you’re waiting for them
to make you feel like you’re enough
you’ll be waiting a long time” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
27. “we already have the things that can complete us
they just aren’t things
they are people
and laughter and connection
– irreplaceable” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
See also: 220 Inspiring Quotes About Laughter Celebrating Its Magic
28. “when my mother was pregnant with her second child i was four i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how my mother had gotten so big in such little time my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and said the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman’s body it’s where life comes from and to have a grown man tell me something so powerful at such a young age changed me to see the entire universe rested at my mother’s feet” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
29. “not everything you do has
to be self-improving
you are not a machine
you are a person
without rest
your work can never be full
without play
your mind can never be nourished
– balance” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
30. “I’m not going to pretend to be less intelligent than i am so a man can feel more comfortable around me” ― Rupi Kaur, Home Body
Deep Rupi Kaur Quotes
1. “my heart woke me crying last night
how can i help i begged
my heart said
write the book” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
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2. “apparently it is ungraceful of me
to mention my period in public
cause the actual biology
of my body is too real
it is okay to sell what’s
between a woman’s legs
more than it is okay to
mention its inner workings
the recreational use of
this body is seen as
beautiful while
its nature is
seen as ugly” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
3. “I am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don’t come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “That is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
5. “I was music
but you had your ears cut off” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “the next time you
have your coffee black
you’ll taste the bitter state he left you in
it will make you weep
but you’ll never
stop drinking
you’d rather have the
darkest parts of him
than have nothing” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
7. “you look just like your mother
i guess i do carry her tenderness well
you both have the same eyes
cause we are both exhausted
and the hands
we share the same wilting fingers
but that rage your mother doesn’t wear that rage
you’re right
this rage is the one thing
i get from my father” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
8. “My tongue is sour
from the hunger
of missing you” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
9. “emptying out of my mother’s belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you’re still alive is from the
heaving of your chest” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
10. “and here you are living
despite it all” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
11. “your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry
your father is absent
you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
12. “it isn’t what we left behind
that breaks me
it’s whatever we could’ve built
had we stayed” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
13. “If I’m not the love of your life
I’ll be the greatest loss instead” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
14. “what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
15. “we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view
– live fully” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
See also: 130 Buddhist Quotes To Help You Become The Awakened One
16. “the right one does not
stand in your way
they make space for you
to step forward” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
17. “you ask
if we can still be friends
i explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
18. “even if this is a mistake. it could only be right to be this wrong with you.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
19. “you are waiting for someone
Who is not coming back
meaning
you are living your life
hoping that someone will realize
they can’t live theirs without you
Realizations don’t work like that” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
20. “you’re everywhere
except right here
and it hurts” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
21. “you pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
i stand up” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
22. “You were so distant I forgot you were there at all.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
23. “it is your blood
in my veins
tell me how i’m
supposed to forget” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
24. “accept yourself as you were designed” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
25. “this place makes me
the kind of exhausted that has
nothing to do with sleep
and everything to do with the people around me
– introvert” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
26. “i could not contain myself any longer
i ran to the ocean
in the middle of the night
and confessed my love for you to the water
as i finished telling her
the salt in her body became sugar” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
27. “they have no idea what it is like to lose home at the risk of never finding home again to have your entire life split between two lands and become the bridge between two countries – immigrant” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
28. “perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search for a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
29. “their concept of beauty
is manufactured
i am not
– human” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
30. “love is knowing whom to choose” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
My Favorite Rupi Kaur Quotes From Milk And Honey
1. “I am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out i was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
3. “The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
4. “i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn
the good thing about
feeling in extremes
is when i love
i give them wings
but perhaps
that isn’t
such a good thing
cause they always
tend to leave and
you should see me
when my heart is broken
i don’t grieve
i shatter” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
5. “do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
6. “your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it’s about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
7. “how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked, milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered – cause people have not been kind to me” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
8. “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
– there is nothing purer than that” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
9. “fall
in love
with your solitude” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
10. “people go but how they left always stays” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
11. “i am hopelessly
a lover and
a dreamer and
that will be the
death of me” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
12. “i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy – outlook” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
13. “you were a dragon long before
he came around and said
you could fly
you will remain a dragon
long after he’s left” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
14. “trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right
-the idea shrinking is hereditary” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
15. “it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
16. “i don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
17. “sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
-you are too late” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
18. “I will tell you about selfish people. even when they know they will hurt you they walk into your life to taste you because you are the type of being they don’t want to miss out on. you are too much shine to not be felt. so when they have gotten a good look at everything you have to offer. when they have taken your skin your hair and your secrets with them. when they realize how real this is. how much of a storm you are and it hits them.
that is when the cowardice sets in. that is when the person you thought they were is replaced by the sad reality of what they are. that is when they lose every fighting bone in their body and leave after saying you will find better than me.
you will stand there naked with half of them still hidden somewhere inside you and sob. asking them why they did it. why they forced you to love them when they had no intention of loving you back and they’ll say something along the lines of i just had to try. i had to give it a chance. it was you after all.
but that isn’t romantic. it isn’t sweet. the idea that they were so engulfed by your existence they had to risk breaking it for the sake of knowing they weren’t the one missing out. your existence meant that little next to their curiosity of you.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
19. “i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving
-balance” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
20. “If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
21. “you treat them like they
have a heart like yours
but not everyone can be as
soft and as tender
you don’t see the
person they are
you see the person
they have the potential to be
you give and give till
they pull everything out of you
and leave you empty.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
22. “the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
23. “I know I
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its knees
every
night.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
24. “you were the most beautiful thing i’d ever felt till now. and i was convinced you’d remain the most beautiful thing i’d ever feel. do you know how limiting that is. to think at such a ripe young age i’d experienced the most exhilarating person i’d ever meet. how i’d spend the rest of my life just settling. to think i’d tasted the rawest form of honey and everything else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing beyond this point would add up. that all the years beyond me could not combine themselves to be sweeter than you.
– falsehood” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
25. “the way they
leave
tells you
everything” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
26. “other women’s bodies
are not our battlegrounds” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
27. “Perhaps
I don’t deserve
Nice things
Cause I am paying
For sins I don’t
Remember” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
28. “i am losing parts of you like i lose eyelashes
unknowingly and everywhere” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
29. “I understand this world broke you. It has been so hard on your feet. I don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. Sometimes I stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. I come from the same aching blood. From the same bone so desperate for attention I collapse in on myself. I am your daughter. I know small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. Cause it’s the only way I know how to tell you.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
30. “it must hurt to know I am your most beautiful regret” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
31. “of course i want to be successful
but i don’t crave success for me
i need to be successful to gain
enough milk and honey
to help those around
me succeed” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
32. “you were so afraid
of my voice
i decided to be
afraid of it too” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
33. “you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
34. “perhaps the saddest of all are those who living waiting for someone they’re not sure exists” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
35. “on days
like this
i need you to
run your fingers
through my hair
and speak softly
– you” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
36. “every revolution starts and ends with his lips” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
37. “you were not wrong for leaving
you were wrong for coming back
and thinking
you could have me
when it was convenient
and leave when it was not” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
38. “Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
39. “kiss me like i am the center point of gravity and you are falling into me like my soul is the focal point of yours.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
40. “stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
41. “there is no bigger illusion in the world
than the idea that a woman will
bring dishonor into a home
if she tries to keep her heart
and her body safe” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
42. “he was supposed to be
the first male love of your life
you still search for him
everywhere
– father” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
43. “i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i’ve called them intelligent or brave i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on i will say things like you are resilient or you are extraordinary not because i don’t think you’re pretty but because you are so much more than that” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
44. “how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
45. “if the hurt comes
so will the happiness” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
46. “to do list (after the breakup)
1. take refuge in your bed
2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days).
3. don’t listen to slow songs.
4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips.
5. don’t look at old photos.
6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate.
7. buy new bed sheets.
8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center.
9. plan a trip.
10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.
11. start a new project.
12. whatever you do. do not call.
13. do not beg for what does not want to stay.
14. stop crying at some point.
15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach.
16. breathe.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
47. “father. you always call to say nothing in particular. you ask what i’m doing or where i am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us i scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going. what i long to say most is. i understand this world broke you. it has been so hard on your feet. i don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you’ll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way I know how to tell you.” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
48. “accept that you deserve more
than painful love” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
49. “you mustn’t have to make them want you they must want you themselves” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
50. “Some people are so bitter. To them, you must be kindest” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
My Favorite Rupi Kaur Quotes From The Sun And Her Flowers
1. “why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
2. “I reduced my body to aesthetics. forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath. declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs. searched everywhere for a miracle. foolish enough to not realize I was already living in one.”
3. “a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
– responsibility” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
4. “despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives
– sunflowers” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
5. “You do not just wake up and become the butterfly”
-Growth is a process.” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
6. “what love looks like
what does love look like the therapist asks
one week after the breakup
and i’m not sure how to answer her question
except for the fact that i thought love
looked so much like you
that’s when it hit me
and i realized how naive i had been
to place an idea so beautiful on the image of a person
as if anybody on this entire earth
could encompass all love represented
as if this emotion seven billion people tremble for
would look like a five foot eleven
medium-sized brown-skinned guy
who likes eating frozen pizza for breakfast.” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
7. “wish pure love and soft peace
upon the ones
who’ve been unkind to you
and keep moving forward
– this will free you both” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
8. “they leave
and act like it never happend
they come back
and act like they never left
– ghost” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
9. “the hummingbirds tell me
you’ve changed your hair
i tell them i don’t care
while listening to them
describe every detail
hunger – rupi kaur” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
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10. “learning to not envy
someone else’s blessings
is what grace looks like” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
11. “what does love look like the therapist asks again
this time interrupting my thoughts midsentence
and at this point i’m about to get up
and walk right out the door
except i paid too much money for this hour
so instead i take a piercing look at her
the way you look at someone
when you’re about to hand it to them
lips pursed tightly preparing to launch into conversation
eyes digging deeply into theirs
searching for all the weak spots
they have hidden somewhere
hair being tucked behind the ears
as if you have to physically prepare for a conversation
on the philosophies or rather disappointments
of what love looks like” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
12. “you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
13. “when death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
14. “if I am the longest relationship
of my life
isn’t it time to
nurture intimacy
and love
with the person
I lie in bed with each night” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
15. “it isn’t blood that makes you my sister
it’s how you understand my heart
as though you carry it
in your body” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
16. “this place makes me the kind of exhausted that has nothing to do with sleep and everything to do with the people around me – introvert” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
17. “trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
18. “the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time
– together” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
19. “on the last day of love my heart cracked inside my body” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
20. “I spent the entire night casting spells to bring you back” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
21. “what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
22. “what is it with you and sunflowers he asks
i point to the field of yellow outside
sunflowers worship the sun i tell him
only when it arrives do they rise
when the sun leaves
they bow their heads in mourning
that is what the sun does to those flowers
it’s what you do to me
– the sun and her flowers” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
23. “borders
are man-made
they only divide us physically
don’t let them make us
turn on each other
– we are not enemies” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
24. “I hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet i hear one insult
and all confidence shatters
– focusing on the negative” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
25. “To hate
Is an easy lazy thing
But to love
Takes strength
Everyone has
But not all are
Willing to practice” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
26. “you call me to tell me you miss me
i turn to face the front door of the house
waiting for a knock
days later you call to say you need me
but still aren’t here
the dandelions on the lawn
are rolling their eyes in disappointment
the grass has declared you yesterday’s news
what do i care
if you love me
or miss me
or need me
when you aren’t doing anything about it
if i’m not the love of your life
i’ll be the greatest loss instead” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
27. “It has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. I learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people. flowers. I learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. I learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft. I learned all things come in twos. life and death. pain and joy. Salt and sugar. me and you. It is the balance of the universe. It has been the year of hurting so bad but living so good. making friends out of strangers. making strangers out of friends. Learning mint chocolate chip ice cream will fix just about everything. and for the pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms. we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world. for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
28. “are you angry with me
are you okay
and would you tell me if you’re not
and if we ever see each other again
do you think you’d reach out and hold me
like you said you would
the last time we spoke and
you talked of the next time we would
or do you think we’d just look
shake in our skin as we pine to
absorb as much as we can of each other
cause by this time we’ve probably got
someone else waiting at home
we were good together weren’t we
and is it wrong that i’m asking you these questions
tell me love
that you have been
looking for these answers too” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
29. “my god
is not as unreachable as
they’d like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
30. “Like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
31. “I long
for you
but you long
for someone else
I deny the one
who wants me
cause I want someone else” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
32. “representation
is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
unable to see itself
will keep trying to become the moth
– representation” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
33. “The year is done. I spread the past three hundred sixty-five days before me on the living room carpet. Here is the month I decided to shed everything not deeply committed to my dreams. The day I refused to be a victim to the self-pity. Here is the week I slept in the garden. The spring I wrung the self-doubt by its neck. Hung your kindness up. Took down the calendar. The week I danced so hard my heart learned to float above water again. The summer I unscrewed all the mirrors from their walls. No longer needed to see myself to feel seen. Combed the weight out of my hair. I fold the good days up and place them in my back pocket for safekeeping. Draw the match. Cremate the unnecessary. The light of the fire warms my toes. I pour myself a glass of warm water to cleanse myself for january. Here I go. Stronger and wiser into the new.” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
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34. “the way you speak of yourself
the way you degrade yourself
into smallness
is abuse
-self-harm” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
35. “Sometimes
I stop myself from
saying the words out loud
as if leaving my mouth too often
might wear them down
– I love you” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
36. “where do we go from here my love
when it’s over and i’m standing between us
whose side do i run to
when every nerve in my body is pulsing for you
when my mouth waters at the thought
when you are pulling me in just by standing there
how do i turn around and choose myself” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
37. “she is not a porn category
or the type you look for
on a friday night
she is not needy or easy or weak
-daddy issues is not a punch line” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
38. “on the first day of love
you wrapped me in the word special” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
39. “you want to keep
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
40. “the day you have everything
i hope you remember
when you had nothing” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
41. “i even tried to bury myself alive
but the dirt recoiled
you have already rotted it said
there is nothing left for me to do” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
42. “let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway – all you own is yourself” ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
43. “bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
44. “It is a blessing to be the color of earth
do you know how often flowers confuse me for home” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
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45. “what good am I, if i do not fill the plates of the ones who fed me but fill the plates of strangers” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
46. “I hardened under the last loss. it took something human out of me. I used to be so deeply emotional I’d crumble on demand. but now the water has made its exit. Of course I care about the ones around me. I’m just struggling to show it. a wall is getting in the way. I used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. now. I am. so strong. that nothing shakes me. and all I dream is to soften.
– numbness” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
47. “no was a bad word in my hone
no was met with the lash
erased from our vocabulary
beaten out of our backs
till we became well-behaved kids
who obediently nodded to yes to everything
when he climbed on top of me
every part of my body wanted to reject it
but i couldn’t say no to save my life
when i tried to scream
all that escaped me was silence
i heard no pounding her fist
on the roof of my mouth
begging to let her out
but i had not put up the exit sign
never built the emergency staircase
there was no trapdoor for no to escape from
i want to ask all the
parents and guardians a question
what use was obedience then
when there were hands
that were not mine inside me
– how can i verbalize consent as an adult if i was never taught to as a child” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
48. “there are mountains growing
beneath our feet
that cannot be contained
all we’ve endured
has prepared us for this
bring your hammer and fists
we have a glass ceiling to shatter” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
49. “I am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
50. “I notice everything I do not have
and decide it is beautiful” ― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
Final Word
I hope that these gentle words of a poet, collected from various sources into Rupi Kaur quotes have made you think more deeply about various topics these quotes cover.
Rupi Kaur is definitely one of a kind, because her words speak volumes. All of her books are something that every emotional being should read, and reflect on.
I hope that you have found some Rupi Kaur quotes from this list, that you will cherish deeply. They also look great as Instagram captions!
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