Citaten van Rupi Kaur

De Indiaas-Canadese schrijfster en dichteres Rupi Kaur was pas 21 toen ze haar eerste dichtbundel Milk and Honey uitbracht, die wereldwijd meer dan 3 miljoen keer is verkocht. Rupi Kaur schrijft over onderwerpen die ons allemaal aangaan zoals Zelfliefde ontwikkelen en opgroeien, maar ook over haar migratieachtergrond en seksueel trauma. Ook op haar Instagram inspireert ze miljoenen met haar pakkende en inspirerende teksten.
Citaten van Rupi Kaur

"Loneliness is a sign you are

in desperate need of yourself."

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"Do not look for healing

at the feet of those

who broke you."

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"How you love yourself is

how you teach others to love you."

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"A lot of times we are angry at other people

for not doing what we should

have done for ourselves."

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"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."

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"You do not just wake up

and become the butterfly.

Growth is a process."

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"It takes grace

to remain kind

in cruel situations."

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"You must want to spend 

the rest of your life

with yourself first."




"We all move forward when we recognize

how resilient and striking

the women around us are."

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"Trust your body,

it reacts to right and wrong better

than your mind does."

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"Borders are man-made,

they only divide us physically.

Don’t let them make us turn on each other.

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"Let it go, let it leave, let it happen.

Nothing in this world

was promised or belonged to you anyway."

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"The right one does not stand in your way,

they make space for you to step forward."

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"Give to those

who have nothing to give to you."

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"You must want to spend

the rest of your life with yourself first."

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"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."

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"What is stronger than the human heart

which shatters over and over and still lives."

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"To heal you have to get

to the root of the wound

and kiss it all the way up."

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"Representation is vital.

Otherwise the butterfly 

surrounded by a group of moths

 unable to see itself 

will keep trying to become the moth."