I am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away

— Rupi Kaur

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. because it is the only way I know how to tell you.

— Rupi Kaur

If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.

— Rupi Kaur

If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not

— Rupi Kaur

I love that about us how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking and tend to our wounds with grace just being a woman calling myself woman makes me utterly whole and complete

— Rupi Kaur

I need someone who knows struggles well as i dosomeonewilling to hold my feet in their Leyton days it is too difficult to stand the type of person who gives exactly what i need before I even know I need tithe type of lover who hears me even when I do not speaks the type of understanding demand-the type of lover I need

— Rupi Kaur

Isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

— Rupi Kaur

I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving-balance

— Rupi Kaur

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

I want to apologize to all the women have called pretty before I've called them intelligent or brave am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you're born within the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on I will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary not because I don't think you're pretty but because you are so much more than that

— Rupi Kaur