Rupi Kaur Home Body Quotes

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.

the next time he points out the hair on your legs is growing back remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again

depression is silent you never hear it coming and suddenly it's the loudest voice in your head

if you tried and didn’t end up where you wanted to go that’s still progress

i have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety

i will never have this version of me again let me slow down and be with her - always evolving

i am trusting the uncertainty and believing i will end up somewhere right and good

my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough

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 - acceptance

make it a point to love yourself as fiercely as you do other people - commitment

my mind my body and i all live in one place but it feels like we are three completely different people - disconnected

you lose everything when you don't love yourself - and gain everything when you do

i want to leave this place knowing i did something with my body other than trying to make it look perfect

how can i be so cruel to myself when i’m doing the best i can - be gentle

you are lonely but you are not alone - there is a difference

i get so lost in where i want to go i forget that the place i’m in is already quite magical

i’m not going to pretend to be less intelligent than i am so a man can feel more comfortable around me

you are a soul. a world. a portal. a spirit. you are never alone. you are organs and blood and flesh and muscle. a colony of miracles weaving into each other.

i’m breathing aren’t i that’s gotta be a sign that the universe is on my side if i’ve made it this far i can make it all the way

there is no bigger illusion in the world than the idea that a woman will bring dishonor into a home if she tries to keep her heart and her body safe

if you’re waiting for them to make you feel like you’re enough you’ll be waiting a long time

there are years in me that have not slept

we already have the things that can complete us they just aren’t things they are people and laughter and connection - irreplaceable

you didn’t lose it happiness has always been here - you just lost perspective

we were always in survival mode long after we didn’t need to be

on days i could not move it was women who came to water my feet until i was strong enough to stand it was women who nourished me back to life

i miss the days my friends knew every mundane detail about my life and i knew every ordinary detail about theirs adulthood has starved me of that consistency that us the walks around the block the long conversations when we were too lost in the moment to care what time it was when we won and celebrated when we failed and celebrated harder when we were just kids now we have our very important jobs that fill up our very busy schedules we compare calendars just to plan coffee dates that one of us eventually cancels cause adulthood is being too exhausted to leave our apartment most days i miss knowing i once belonged to a group of people bigger than myself that belonging made life easier to live - friendship nostalgia

not everything you do has to be self-improving you are not a machine you are a person without rest your work can never be full without play your mind can never be nourished - balance

don’t sleep on the doormat of your potential waiting for things to happen when you could be the thing that happens

there is a conversation happening inside you pay deep attention to what your inner world is saying

remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again

on days you can’t hear yourself slow down to let your mind and body catch up to each other - stillness

you are one person, but when you move, an entire community walks through you - you go nowhere alone

i am not my worst days i am not what happened to me - reminder

i am loving myself out of the dark.

quiet down i begged my mind your overthinking is robbing us of joy

i'm either romanticizing the past or i'm busy worrying about the future it's no wonder i don't feel alive i'm not living in the only moment that's real

don’t ask me why i didn’t leave he made my world so small i couldn’t see the exit - i’m surprised i got out at all

sometimes i love you means i want to love you sometimes i love you means i’ll stay a little while longer sometimes i love you means i’m not sure how to leave sometimes i love you means i have nowhere else to go

if the devil hadn’t pushed you into a corner and forced you to break its neck how would you have known you were this strong

i stopped resisting the unpleasant feelings and accepted that happiness has nothing to do with feeling good all the time -balance

i have to honor my mind and body if i want to sustain this journey - life

if you could accept that perfection is impossible what would you stop obsessing over

now that you are free and the only obligation you are under is your own dreams what will you do with your time

you have only scratched the surface of what you’re capable of there are decades of victories ahead of you

i’m not going to pretend to be less intelligent than i am so a man can feel more comfortable around me the one i deserve will see my greatness and want to lift it higher

i have this productivity anxiety that everyone else is working harder than me and i’m going to be left behind cause i’m not working fast enough long enough and i’m wasting my time i don’t sit down to have breakfast i take it to go i call my mother when i’m free—otherwise it takes too long to have a conversation i put off everything that won’t bring me closer to my dreams as if the things i’m putting off are not the dream themselves isn’t the dream that i have a mother to call and a table to eat breakfast at instead i’m lost in the sick need to optimize every hour of my day so i’m improving in some way making money in some way advancing my career in some way because that’s what it takes to be successful right i excavate my life package it up sell it to the world [...] capitalism got inside my head and made me think my only value is how much i produce for people to consume capitalism got inside my head and made me think i am of worth as long as i am working i learned impatience from it i learned self-doubt from it learned to plant seeds in the ground and expect flowers the next day but magic doesn’t work like that magic doesn’t happen cause i’ve figured out how to pack more work in a day magic moves by the laws of nature and nature has its own clock magic happens when we play when we escape daydream and imagine that’s where everything with the power to fulfill us is waiting on its knees for us - productivity anxiety

can you hear the women who came before me five hundred thousand voices ringing through my neck as if this were all a stage built for them i can’t tell which parts of me are me and which parts are them can you see them taking over my spirit shaking out of my limbs to do everything they couldn’t do when they were alive

i want you to wipe away everything you know about love and start with one word kindness give it to them let them give it to you be two pillars equal in your love and you’ll carry empires on your backs

I’m too in love with my life to be spilling all over the floor for the next man who gives me butterflies when I could look in the mirror and take my own breath away

you have everything to gain from believing in yourself yet you spend all your time with self-doubt

i’m a new person every month always becoming and unbecoming only to become again

you didn’t lose it happiness has always been here - you just lost perspective

the world is changing can you feel it undressing itself and slipping into something uncomfortable and more just - waves

the need to survive lit a fire in me

i became confident once i decided that having fun was far more important than my fear of looking silly - dancing in public

look for the women in the room who have less space than you listen hear them and act on what they’re saying - amplify indigenous. trans. black. brown. women of color voices

there is a list of questions i want to ask but never will there is a list of questions i go through in my head every time i'm alone and my mind can't stop itself from searching for you there is a list of questions i want to ask so if you're listening somewhere here i am asking them what do you think happens to the love that's left behind when two lovers leave how blue do you think it gets before it passes away does it pass away or does it still exist somewhere waiting for us to come back when we lied to ourselves by calling this unconditional and left which one of us hurt more i shattered into a million little pieces and those pieces shattered into a million more crumbled into dust till there was nothing left of me but the silence tell me how love how did the grieving feel for you how did the mourning hurt how did you peel your eyes open after every blink knowing i'd never be there staring back it must be hard to live with what ifs there must always be this constant dull aching in the pit of your stomach trust me i feel it too how in the world did we get here how did we live through it and how are we still living how many months did it take before you stopped thinking of me or are you still thinking of me cause if you are then maybe i am too thinking of you thinking of me with me in me around me everywhere you and me and us do you still touch yourself to the thoughts of me do you still imagine my naked naked tiny tiny body pressed into yours do you still imagine the curve of my spine and how you wanted to rip it out of me cause the way it dipped into my perfectly rounded bottom drove you crazy baby sugar baby sweet baby ever since we left how many times did you pretend it was my hand stroking you how many times did you search for me in your fantasies and end up crying instead of coming don't you lie to me i can tell when you're lying cause there's always that little bit of arrogance in your response are you angry with me are you okay and would you tell me if you're not and if we ever see each other again do you think you'd reach out and hold me like you said you would the last time we spoke and you talked of the next time we would or do you think we'd just look shake in our skin as we pine to absorb as much as we can of each other cause by this time we've probably got someone else waiting at home we were good together weren't we and is it wrong that i'm asking you these questions tell me love that you have been looking for these answers too

being the loudest on earth’s playground doesn’t make us any more important than the dirt we crush beneath our feet we are nothing except air and fire and water and soil we are a people who forget what we are made of a people who talk about the weather as if it’s mundane and not magic as if the oceans are not holy water as if the sky is not a vision as if the animals are not our siblings as if nature is not god and rain is not god’s tears and we are not god’s children as if god is not the earth itself

today i saw myself for the first time when i dusted off the mirror of my mind and the woman looking back took my breath away who was this beautiful beastling this extra-celestial earthling i touched my face and my reflection touched the woman of my dreams all her gorgeous smirking back at me my knees surrendered to the earth as i wept and sighed at how i’d gone my whole life being myself but not seeing myself

i'm done trying to prove myself to myself

we were always in survival mode long after we didn’t need to be - habit

Aquello a lo que hemos sobrevivido, vive dentro de nosotros.

nothing lasts forever let that be the reason you stay even this sick twisted misery will not last - hope

you lose everything when you don't love yourself - and gain everything when you do

my mind said i can’t take it anymore. i told my mind you better get yourself together. we came here for joy. and we are going to feel all of it.

happiness grew old waiting for me and i grew old searching for happiness in places it did not live

we can work at our own pace and still be successful

by virtue of living in a racist world nonblack people are raised to be antiblack we are all taught that lighter is better - undoing

oh but the pussy is brave lest we forget how much pain the pussy can take how much pleasure it delivers unto itself and others remember how it spit you out without a flinch now here you are using the word pussy like an insult when you’re not even strong enough to be one

being the loudest on earth's playground doesn't make us any more important than the dirt we crush beneath our feet we are nothing except air and fire and water and soil

we've worked so hard to be here we can afford to slow down and enjoy the view

me pierdo tanto en los sitios a los que quiero ir que olvido que el sitio en el que estoy es ya muy mágico

por qué todo parece menos hermoso cuando nos pertenece

your partner is supposed to enrich your life not drain it staying when it hurts is not love

productivity is not how much work i do in a day but how well i balance what i need to stay healthy

even if my mind forgets my body remembers

get loud say what you need to say it feels good to reclaim your life

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.

the need to survive lit a fire in me

if someone dosen't have a heart you can't go around offering them yours

the mountains i built from all the shit people tried to stone me to death with - warrior

depression is silent you never hear it coming and suddenly it’s the loudest voice in your head

we've ruined our only home for convenience and profit neither of which will be useful once the earth can't breathe

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

to make him the one and it took me three years to realize love doesn’t work like that

i’m waking up from the longest night of my life it’s been years since i’ve seen the sun - awakening

silly girl little angel little devil so oblivious to being the miracle worker you are the mother the magician the master of your life

why escape yourself when you are so beautiful get closer to your shine

live loud and proud like you deserve and reject their bullshit definition of what a woman should look like

i’m either romanticizing the past or i’m busy worrying about the future it’s no wonder i don’t feel alive i’m not living in the only moment that’s real - present

you might have done the external work but your mind is starving for internal attention - listen

there is nothing wrong with you this is growth this is transformation protecting yourself getting lost in the noise figuring it out feeling used uncared for losing hope burning out this is fear this is processing this is surviving this is being alive - journey

men like him are experts at smelling out girls like me the invisible ones who believe they must be ugly because their fathers didn’t love them he said my name and i had never heard my name dance off a man’s lips before give a little attention to someone who’s never had any and they’ll be slipping and falling all over the place unable to contain the joy of being wanted the relief of being discovered he groomed me into thinking i couldn’t survive without him this is how men like him trap girls like me - predator

be here in what needs to be done today that's how you honor tomorrow

Look me in the eyes when you're down there eating for your life - i want you to see what you do to me

i thought i could accomplish my way into being happy but nothing on the outside fulfilled me in the ways it had promised

why do i hurt the ones who want to lift me up and worship the ones who crush me

capitalism got inside my head and made me think my only value is how much i produce for people to consume capitalism got inside my head and made me think i am of worth as long as i am working i learned impatience from it i learned self-doubt from it learned to plant seeds in the ground and expect flowers the next day but magic doesn’t work like that magic doesn’t happen cause i’ve figured out how to pack more work in a day magic moves by the laws of nature and nature has its own clock magic happens when we play when we escape daydream and imagine that’s where everything with the power to fulfill us is waiting on its knees for us - productivity anxiety

i want to live I'm just afraid I won't measure up to the idea people have of me in their heads I'm afraid of getting older scared I'll never write anything worth reading again that I'll disappoint the people who are counting on me that I'll never learn to be happy that I'll be broke again one day that my parents will die and I'll be alone in the end