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Rupi Kaur's 40 Most Elegantly Profound Quotes From Milk And Honey

I would not be the empire I am today if you had stayed. 
Kirsten Corley
August 19, 2016
“It is your blood in my veins, tell me how i'm supposed to forget”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“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
“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
“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.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Milk And Honey, Rupi Kaur, Fate
“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
“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
“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
“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
“the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: smiling, Conversation, Relationship, Happiness
“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: Goodness, Love Again, Relationship Advice, kindness, Growth
“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Leaving, Loving, goodbye, Love More
“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, milk and honey
Tagged: Mother Quotes, Daughter Quotes, Relationships
“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
“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Father Daughter, Relationships
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives?”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Stronger, Heartbreak, Pain, Relationship Ending, Recovering From Heartbreak, Moving On
“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
Tagged: Strength And Courage, Strength And Beauty, danger, Pain
“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
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Lonely, Letting Go, Desperate
“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
“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
Tagged: kindness, Choosing Good, Too Nice, Good and Bad
“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
“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
“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, milk and honey
Tagged: Home, Looking For Love, Self love
“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
“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
“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Healing, Hoping, Broken People
“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
Tagged: Finding Love, Looking For Love