Best 80 quotes of Rupi Kaur on MyQuotes

accept that you deserve more than painful love life is moving the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it

a daughter should not have to beg her father for a relationship

a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

and here you are living despite it all

bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled

despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you -you cannot make it stay

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

fall in love with your solitude

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

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

how do i welcome in kindness when i have only practiced spreading my legs for the terrifying what am i to do with you if my idea of love is violence but you are sweet if your concept of passion is eye contact but mine is rage how can i call this intimacy if i crave sharp edges but your edges aren't even edges they are soft landings how do i teach muself to accept a healthy love if all i've ever known is pain

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut

i am not a hotel room i am home i am not the whiskey you want i am the water you need

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

i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his

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

i didn't leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself

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.

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

If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not

If I'm not the love of your life I'll be the greatest loss instead

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

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

he isn't coming back whispered my head he has to sobbed my heart

i know it's hard believe me i know it feels like tomorrow will never come and today will be the most difficult day to get through but i swear you will get through the hurt will pass as it always does if you give it time and let it so let it go slowly like a broken promise let it go

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

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

i reached for the last bouquet of flowers you gave me now wilting in their vase one by one i popped their heads off and ate them

rise said the moon and the new day came

i spent the entire night casting spells to bring you back

i thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving -balance

i was music but you had your ears cut off

look at what they've done the earth cried to the moon they've turned me into one entire bruise - green and blue

love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love

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 will come and when love comes love will hold you love will call your name and you will melt sometimes through love will hurt you but love will never mean to love will play no games cause love knows life has been hard enough already

my god is not as unreachable as they'd like you to think my god is beating inside us infinitely

my mother sacrificed her dreams so i could dream

never feel guilty for starting again

no me fui porque dejara de quererte me fui porque cuanto más tiempo me quedaba menos me quería a mí misma

no te equivocaste al irte te equivocaste al volver y pensar que podías tenerme cuando fuera conveniente y marcharte cuando no

nothing is safer than the sound of you reading out loud to me -the perfect date

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

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

on the last day of love my heart cracked inside my body

people go but how they left always stays

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

representation is vital otherwise the butterfly surrounded by a group of moths unable to see itself will keep trying to become the moth - representation