rupi kaur quotes.
feel free to change pronouns, descriptors, & play around with context if so desired ♡
❝ what is stronger than the human heart, which shatters over and over and still lives? ❞ ❝ if you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise. ❞ ❝ loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. ❞ ❝ your body is a museum of natural disasters. can you grasp how stunning that is? ❞ ❝ the universe took its time on you, crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else. so when you doubt how you were created, you doubt an energy greater than us both. ❞ ❝ you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting. ❞ ❝ 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. ❞ ❝ i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you. i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself. ❞ ❝ you left and i wanted you still, yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay. ❞ ❝ i will no longer compare my path to others. i refuse to do a disservice to my life. ❞ ❝ love does not look like a person. love is our actions. love is giving all we can. ❞ ❝ people go, but how they left always stays. ❞ ❝ a lot of times, we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done ourselves. ❞ ❝ yes, it is possible to hate and love someone at the same time. i do it to myself every day. ❞ ❝ we began with honesty. let us end in it too. ❞ ❝ the thing worth holding onto would not have let go. ❞ ❝ i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his. ❞ ❝ our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry. ❞ ❝ how do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that’s so violent? when your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that? ❞ ❝ the world gives you so much pain, and here you are making gold out of it. ❞ ❝ i notice everything i do not have and decide it is beautiful. ❞ ❝ 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? ❞ ❝ how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you. ❞ ❝ why is it that when the story ends, we begin to feel all of it? ❞ ❝ you might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant. ❞ ❝ you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live. ❞ ❝ do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you. you cannot make it stay. ❞ ❝ to heal, you have to get to the root of the wound and kiss it all the way up. ❞ ❝ i am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut. ❞ ❝ the right one does not stand in your way. they make space for you to step forward. ❞ ❝ you were not wrong for leaving, you were wrong for coming back and thinking you could have me when it was convenient and leave me when it was not. ❞ ❝ despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives. ❞ ❝ there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you. ❞ ❝ i am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me. ❞ ❝ do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you. ❞ ❝ 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. ❞ ❝ if i’m not the love of your life, i’ll be the greatest loss instead. ❞ ❝ fall in love with your solitude. ❞ ❝ like the rainbow after the rain, joy will reveal itself after sorrow. ❞ ❝ the thing about writing is i can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying. ❞ ❝ we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view. ❞
