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Rupi Kaur Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Poetry, Quote of the Moment, Self love, How to be good at love
“The very thought of you has my legs spread apart like an easel with a canvas
begging for art.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Sex, Art, Begging, Sexy Things To Text Him, Metaphors, Desire
“perhaps the saddest of all
are those who live waiting
for someone they’re not
sure exists”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Expectations, Disappointment, disappointment in love, Hoping, Daydreaming, Sad Truth
“Don't mistake salt for sugar, if he wants to be with you, he will, it's that simple.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, He's Just Not That Into Yo u, Dating Advice, tips
“you must
want to spend
the rest of your life
with yourself
first”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love Yourself, Acceptance, Getting To Know Yourself, Inspirational, Motivating, life advice
“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
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Someone, Attraction, Lover, pain in love, happiness in love, struggles in love, Love & Relationships, love & struggles, poem, Poetry
“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
Tagged: small talk, Love Me, How To Love
“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.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Chess Game, Fate, Love Again
“how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love Again, Toxic Relationships
“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Weakness, Falling And Rising, Try Again
“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, Showing Not Telling, Question Love
“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
Tagged: Just Friends, Relationships Ending, goodbye
“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
Tagged: Poetry, Quote of the Moment, Love
“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Father Daughter, Relationships
“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
Tagged: beauty, Relationships, touching, Touched
“your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Relationships Ending, Loving, Body
“be a sad replacement of the woman you let slip. nothing she does will excite you and this will break her.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Breaking, Pain, hurt, Love
“you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all other loves seem
irrelevant”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: First Love, First Heartbreak
“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.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Selfish People, Belittle, gamble, Letting Go
“Isn't it such a tragic thing when you see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“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.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Social Anxiety, I Hate Myself
“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.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Confidence, Good Relationships, Love, Stay, Forever
“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Past, Regret, Mistakes, Pain
“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 fill 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, milk and honey
Tagged: Whole, Empty, Broken People, Letting Go
“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
Tagged: Mother Quotes, Love
“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
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Finding Love Again, I Complete Me
“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
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, Important
“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
Tagged: Beautiful, Stay Grounded, Roots, Relationships
“People go
but how
they left
always stays.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Pain, Nostalgia, Abandonment, Break Up, Relationships, Poetry
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Lonely, Letting Go, Desperate
“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 once you left.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Strength And Courage, beauty, Wisdome, Needing
“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
Tagged: Endings, goodbye, Love Deeply
“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
Tagged: Daughter Quotes, Love Me, Lose Me
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