Dorissa Remi > Dorissa's Quotes

“sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed

-you are too late”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

“how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“fall
in love
with your solitude”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once

-when you ask if we can still be friends”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“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

“you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“we have been dying
since we got here
and forgot to enjoy the view

- live fully”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“you're everywhere
except right here
and it hurts”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“don’t mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it’s that simple”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
― Rupi Kaur

“people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― rupi kaur, Milk and honey

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn

that since day one
she's already had everything she needs within herself
it's the world that convinced her she did not”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“the way they
leave
tells you
everything”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“love does not look like a person
love is our actions
love is giving all we can
even if it's just the bigger slice of cake
love is understanding
we have the power to hurt one another
but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don't
love is fighting out all the kind sweetness we deserve
and when someone shows up
saying they will provide it as you do
but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you
love is knowing whom to choose”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“you are a mirror
if you continue to starve yourself of love
you'll only meet people who'll starve you too
if you soak yourself in love
the universe will hand you those
who'll love you too
- a simple math”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“do not beg for what does not want to stay”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“when the world comes crashing at
your feet
it’s okay to let others
help pick up the pieces
if we’re present to take part in your
happiness
when your circumstances are great
we are more than capable
of sharing your pain”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“take the compliment do not shy away from another thing that belongs to you”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“when you plunged the knife into me
you also began bleeding
my wound became your wound
didn't you know
love is a double-edged knife
you will suffer the way you make me suffer”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers