“Rupi Kaur Quotes” are concise yet profound expressions that navigate the intricate realms of self-discovery, love, healing, and the human experience.
Her words, often born from personal struggles, form a tapestry of emotions, capturing moments of vulnerability, strength, and resilience. With simplicity and depth, her quotes resonate with readers, evoking introspection and connection.
Through her artful verses, Kaur crafts a bridge between individual stories and shared emotions, inviting reflection and understanding.
“The thing worth holding onto would not have let go”
Rupi Kaur Quotes
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”
“A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.”
“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.”
“You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live”
“I could be anything in the world but I wanted to be his”
“She was a rose in the hands of those who had no intention of keeping her.”
“We have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view- live fully.”
“Why is it that when the story ends we begin to feel all of it”
“I was music but you had your ears cut off.”
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
“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.”
“A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.”
“When death takes my hand I will hold you with the other and promise to find you in every lifetime.”
“The kindest words my father said to me: ‘Women like you drown oceans.’”
“That is the thing about selfish people. They gamble entire beings. Entire souls to please their own.”
“You do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process”
“The kindest words my father said to me Women like you drown oceans.”
“Nothing is safer than the sound of you, reading aloud to me — the perfect date.”
“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry”
“We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are”
“You do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process.”
“There is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you.”
“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”
“If you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else.”
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
“The right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward”
“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.”
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.”
“I am made of water, of course, I am emotional”
“I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.”
“It isn’t what we left behind that breaks me it’s whatever we could’ve built had we stayed”
“Let it go let it leave let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”
“Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.”
“The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it – there is nothing purer than that.”
“Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
“I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving -balance”
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
“People go but how they left always stays”
“You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant.”
“If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.”
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.”
“Trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does”
“We have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view- live fully”
“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”
“My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.”
“I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving – balance.”
“She was a rose in the hands of those who had no intention of keeping her”
“I could be anything in the world but I wanted to be his.”
“And here you are living despite it all.”
“Accept that you deserve more than painful love. Life is moving, the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it.”
“You left and I wanted you still, yet I deserved someone who was willing to stay.”
“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.”
“Do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you-you cannot make it stay.”
“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”
“Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.”
“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.”
“Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.”
“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.”
“My heart aches for sisters more than anything it aches for women helping women like flowers ache for spring”
“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”
These quotes by Rupi Kaur touch on themes of self-discovery, love, resilience, and empowerment, capturing emotions with her distinct style of short and impactful poetry.
