Home Body Quotes

“depression is silent
you never hear it coming
and suddenly it's
the loudest voice in your head”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“if you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her
- always evolving”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i am trusting the uncertainty
and believing i will
end up somewhere
right and good”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

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

- commitment”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“my mind
my body
and i
all live in one place
but it feels like we are
three completely different people
- disconnected”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“you lose everything
when you don't love yourself

- and gain everything when you do”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i want to leave this place knowing
i did something with my body
other than trying to
make it look perfect”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“how can i be so cruel to myself when i’m doing the best i can - be gentle”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“you are lonely
but you are not alone
- there is a difference”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i’m not going to pretend to be less intelligent than i am so a man can feel more comfortable around me”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i get so lost
in where i want to go
i forget that the place i’m in
is already quite magical”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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.”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“if you’re waiting for them
to make you feel like you’re enough
you’ll be waiting a long time”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“there are years in me
that have not slept”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“we already have the things that can complete us
they just aren’t things
they are people
and laughter and connection
- irreplaceable”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“you didn’t lose it happiness has always been here - you just lost perspective”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“we were always in survival mode long after we didn’t need to be”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“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”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“don’t sleep on
the doormat of your potential
waiting for things to happen
when you could be
the thing that happens”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“there is a conversation
happening inside you
pay deep attention
to what your inner world
is saying”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“on days you can’t hear yourself
slow down to
let your mind and body
catch up to each other
- stillness”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body