Rupi Kaur is an Indian-born Canadian poet, writer, illustrator, and performer. She immigrated to Canada as a child and has since settled in Toronto. Her debut book, a collection of poetry and prose titled Milk and Honey, was published in 2014; it sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her second book, The Sun and Her Flowers, was published in 2017. She has proved to be a great poet and a total success despite her young age. May her quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” Rupi Kaur
2. “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” Rupi Kaur
3. “You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.” Rupi Kaur
4. “Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.” Rupi Kaur
5. “You do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process.”Rupi Kaur
6. “My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.” Rupi Kaur
7. “Trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does.” Rupi Kaur
8. “We have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view – live fully.” Rupi Kaur
9. “If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.” Rupi Kaur
10. “What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.”Rupi Kaur
11. “That is the thing about selfish people. They gamble entire beings. Entire souls to please their own.” Rupi Kaur
12. “I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving – balance.” Rupi Kaur
13. “You have so much yet you are always hungry for more. The trick to being well fed is you have to stop looking up at everything you don’t have and look around at everything you do.” Rupi Kaur
14. “A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.” Rupi Kaur
15. “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.”Rupi Kaur
16. “Accept that you deserve more than painful love. Life is moving, the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it.” Rupi Kaur
17. “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.” Rupi Kaur
18. “My heart aches for sisters more than anything it aches for women helping women like flowers ache for spring.” Rupi Kaur
19. “The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it – there is nothing purer than that.” Rupi Kaur
20. “The kindest words my father said to me: Women like you drown oceans.”Rupi Kaur
21. “We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are.” Rupi Kaur
22. “The right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward.” Rupi Kaur
23. “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” Rupi Kaur
24. “I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It’s a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That’s the end of the conversation.” Rupi Kaur
25. “What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.”Rupi Kaur
26. “Give to those who have nothing to give to you.” Rupi Kaur
27. “Despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives – sunflowers.” Rupi Kaur
28. “I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you, I left because the longer I stayed the less I loved myself.” Rupi Kaur
29. “I will no longer compare my path to others – I refuse to do a disservice to my life.” Rupi Kaur
30. “Truth, honesty, empowerment – it’s what I want for myself and my readers.”Rupi Kaur
31. “We began with honesty let us end in it too.” Rupi Kaur
32. “If you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else.” Rupi Kaur
33. “There is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you.” Rupi Kaur
34. “Do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you – you cannot make it stay.” Rupi Kaur
35. “Never feel guilty for starting again.” Rupi Kaur
Check out Rupi Kaur’s interview with Jimmy Fallon:
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