If you’ve ever turned to poetry to heal, to feel understood, or to rediscover your strength, then you already know why Rupi Kaur Quotes touch so many hearts.
If you’re a poetry lover, a dreamer scribbling thoughts in your journal, or someone simply looking for words that feel like home — you’re in the right place.
Rupi Kaur has a way of saying what we often struggle to express — love, loss, healing, and growth — all in a few lines that feel deeply personal.
This article, we’ll explore her most powerful and timeless quotes that speak directly to your heart, comfort your soul, and remind you that your story matters too.
Self-Love & Inner Strength
- you are a museum full of art yet you had your eyes shut
- how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you
- if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise
- i want to be full on my own i want to feel so complete i could light a whole city
- the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- fall in love with your solitude
- we are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not
- you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
- i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own
- you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal
- our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
- when things get better there is a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others
- you tell me i am not like most girls and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
- the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct
- to be soft is to be powerful
Love, Relationships & Heartbreak
- i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself
- you are waiting for someone who is not coming back meaning you are not living your life hoping someone else will realise they can’t live theirs without you
- people go but how they left always stays
- you are the ikea furniture he never got around to making the backup bookshelf that is too new to throw away but not nearly tempting to open
- wasn’t it you who told me i am not like most girls and expected me to feel relieved you picked me
- the way they leave tells you everything
- i see you and begin grieving all over again
- sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed
- let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway
- you lose everything when you don’t love yourself and gain everything when you do
- he isn’t coming back whispered my head he has to sobbed my heart
- you leave but you don’t stay gone why do you do that why do you abandon the thing you want to keep
- neither of us is happy neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love
- if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise
- you must find no worth in yourself if you think i am worth less after you’ve touched me as if worth is something we transfer
Healing, Growth & Moving Forward
- do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you
- the kindest words my father said to me women like you drown oceans
- i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away
- i am not my worst days i am not what happened to me
- nothing lasts forever let that be the reason you stay even this sick twisted misery will not last
- the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
- you will find your way out of you just fine
- the dawn we once felt together still shines though we walk separate paths
- stay strong through your pain grow flowers from it bloom softly however you need just bloom
- you don’t know what living a balanced life feels like when you are sad i don’t cry i pour when i am happy i glow
- 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
- i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself
- you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
- when things get better there is a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others
Feminism, Identity & Empowerment
- you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out
- the kindest words my father said to me women like you drown oceans
- we all move forward when we recognise how resilient and striking the women around us are
- you are waiting for someone who is not coming back meaning you are not living your life hoping someone else will realise they can’t live theirs without you
- a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves
- you were so distant i forgot you were there at all
- love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love
- when things get better there is a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others
- you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal
- neither of us is happy neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love
- our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
- the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct
- you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
- we are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not
- to be soft is to be powerful
Life, Purpose & Reflection
- the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- i want to be full on my own i want to feel so complete i could light a whole city
- you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
- our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
- when things get better there is a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others
- i am not my worst days i am not what happened to me
- you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal
- nothing lasts forever let that be the reason you stay even this sick twisted misery will not last
- fall in love with your solitude
- the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct
- i want to be soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away
- you are waiting for someone who is not coming back meaning you are not living your life hoping someone else will realise they can’t live theirs without you
- you were so distant i forgot you were there at all
- love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love
- you do not just wake up and become the butterfly
Inspiration, Creativity & Expression
- your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if your soul likes your work
- i want to be full on my own i want to feel so complete i could light a whole city
- when i love i give them wings but perhaps that isn’t such a good thing cause they always tend to leave
- the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else
- you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal
- to be soft is to be powerful
- you must never trade honesty for relatability
- a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves
- our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
- you are a museum full of art yet you had your eyes shut
- i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away
- fall in love with your solitude
- you do not just wake up and become the butterfly
- the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- our task is to remember their sacrifice and strive to create a world worthy of it
Rupi Kaur Quotes – Self-Love
- you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first
- how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you
- i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
- i am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me
- your body is a museum of natural disasters and miracles
- you alone are enough. you have nothing to prove to anyone
- i want to be soft but strong
- the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- i am my own soulmate
- do not fear the fire in you, it is your light
- i am allowed to grow and change and love myself in the process
- the most powerful relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself
- you do not just wake up and become the butterfly, growth is a process
- i am not afraid of storms for i am learning to sail my own ship
- love yourself first and everything else falls into line
Rupi Kaur Quotes About Growth
- “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
- “i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i’ve called them intelligent or brave”
- “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
- “you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”
- “the wound is the place where the light enters you”
- “i am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me”
- “do not mistake my kindness for weakness”
- “you get stronger by letting go, not by holding on”
- “we move forward by letting go of what weighs us down”
- “own your growth quietly, it is yours alone”
- “how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”
- “i’ve been through so much already, and i am still learning to bloom”
- “you do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process”
- “sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life”
- “don’t let the world steal your light, nourish it and grow”
Rupi Kaur – Short Quotes
- “i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intelligent or brave”
- “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
- “i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away”
- “you do not just wake up and become the butterfly. growth is a process”
- “how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”
- “i am not free while any woman is unfree”
- “you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”
- “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
- “i want to be with those who know secret things or else alone”
- “do not block the sun”
- “i have learned so much from the little things”
- “what you love will manifest”
- “you alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody”
- “i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut”
- “the world gives you so much pain and here you are creating yourself”
Rupi Kaur Quotes – Feminism
- “I want to apologize to all the women I have called pretty before I’ve called them intelligent or brave.”
- “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
- “You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”
- “We do not just want equality. We want liberation.”
- “I am proud of the woman I am becoming.”
- “You are a woman, you are allowed to scream, to cry, to say no.”
- “The way you speak to yourself matters.”
- “We deserve to love without apology and without fear.”
- “Do not try to fix your women, uplift them.”
- “Your body is not an apology.”
- “We have been silenced for too long, now our voices are loud.”
- “Feminism is not about man-hating; it is about reclaiming your power.”
- “Your femininity is your strength, not a weakness.”
- “Celebrate the woman who refuses to shrink herself for the comfort of others.”
- “We rise by lifting other women.”
Rupi Kaur Quotes – Inspirational
- “You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process.”
- “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
- “I want to apologize to all the women I have called pretty before calling them intelligent or brave.”
- “What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.”
- “You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”
- “Don’t forget to love yourself.”
- “I am water. Soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away.”
- “If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.”
- “Your body is not a temple, it’s a forest. And you are wild and free.”
- “The universe takes care of you when you’re brave enough to care for yourself.”
- “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
- “What you seek is seeking you.”
- “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
- “The most beautiful part of your heart is the one that forgives.”
- “Stay soft. Stay brave. Stay you.”
Conclusion
We’ve explored six major themes in Rupi Kaur’s work—self-love, love and relationships, healing/growth, feminism/identity, life/purpose, and creativity/expression.
Each theme comes with fifteen quotes ready for you to reflect on, share or simply read to feel uplifted. No more searching around—your solution is here.
