Home Body by Rupi Kaur walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self.
Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here.
Scroll down to read 30 quotes from Home Body by Rupi Kaur.
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30 Quotes from Home Body by Rupi Kaur
1.
you are lonely
but you are not alone
– there is a difference
2.
i want to live
i’m just afraid
i won’t measure up to the
idea people have of me in their heads
3.
you lose everything
when you don’t love yourself
– and gain everything when you do
4.
i am loving myself out of the dark
5.
i am not a victim of my life
what i went through
pulled a warrior out of me
and it is my greatest honor to be her
6.
if someone doesn’t have a heart
you can’t go around
offering them yours
7.
if you’re waiting for them
to make you feel like you’re enough
you’ll be waiting a long time
8.
why does everything
become less beautiful
once it belongs to us
9.
why do i hurt the ones
who want to lift me up and
worship the ones who crush me
10.
a man can’t give me anything
i can’t give myself
11.
– things i wish i could tell the younger me
masturbation
is meditation
12.
i’m careful about
who i spend my energy on
– i know my worth
13.
we can work
at our own pace
and still be
successful
14.
we already have the things that can complete us
they just aren’t things
they are people
and laughter and connection
15.
you might have done
the external work
but your mind is starving
for internal attention
16.
i don’t care about perfection
i’d rather roll deep
in the messiness of life
17.
your job is to
show up for the process
be patient and when it’s time
the universe will use you again
18.
i became confident
once i decided that having fun
was far more important than
my fear of looking silly
19.
you can’t quiet a woman who was born muzzled
i fell from the mouth of my mother’s legs
into the palms of this world
with god herself raging in me
20.
don’t sleep on
the doormat of your potential
waiting for things to happen
when you could be
the thing that happens
21.
you are one person
but when you move
an entire community
walks through you
22.
there is a conversation
happening inside you
pay deep attention
to what your inner world
is saying
23.
it’s easy to love
the nice things about ourselves
but true self-love is
embracing the difficult parts
that live in all of us
24.
i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else
25.
why escape yourself
when you are so beautiful
26.
make it a point
to love yourself
as fiercely as you do other people
27.
you do not belong to the future or the past
– you belong right here
28.
i will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her
29.
there are days
when the light flickers
and then i remember
i am the light
i go in and
switch it back on
30.
you have only scratched the surface
of what you’re capable of
there are decades
of victories ahead of you
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