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61 " if you’re waiting for themto make you feel like you’re enoughyou’ll be waiting a long time "
― Rupi Kaur , Home Body
62 " there is a conversationhappening inside youpay deep attentionto what your inner worldis saying "
63 " not everything you do hasto be self-improvingyou are not a machineyou are a personwithout restyour work can never be fullwithout playyour mind can never be nourished- balance "
64 " you didn’t lose it happiness has always been here - you just lost perspective "
65 " we were always in survival mode long after we didn’t need to be "
66 " there are years in methat have not slept "
67 " on days you can’t hear yourselfslow down tolet your mind and bodycatch up to each other- stillness "
68 " don’t sleep onthe doormat of your potentialwaiting for things to happenwhen you could bethe thing that happens "
69 " 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 "
70 " being the loudest on earth’s playgrounddoesn’t make us any more important thanthe dirt we crush beneath our feetwe are nothing except airand fire and water and soilwe are a peoplewho forget what we are made ofa people who talk about the weatheras if it’s mundane and not magicas if the oceansare not holy wateras if the skyis not a visionas if the animalsare not our siblingsas if nature is not godand rain is not god’s tearsand we are not god’s childrenas if god is not the earth itself "
71 " i will never havethis version of me againlet me slow downand be with her- always evolving "
72 " i am loving myself out of the dark. "
73 " i have to honor my mind and bodyif i want to sustain this journey- life "
74 " quiet down i begged my mind your overthinking is robbing us of joy "
75 " don’t ask me why i didn’t leavehe made my world so smalli couldn’t see the exit- i’m surprised i got out at all "
76 " i’m a new person every month always becoming and unbecoming only to become again "
77 " 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 "
78 " 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 "
79 " if you could accept that perfection is impossible what would you stop obsessing over "
80 " i'm either romanticizing the pastor i'm busy worrying about the futureit's no wonderi don't feel alivei'm not livingin the only moment that's real "