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141 " you are one person but when you move an entire community walks through you - you go nowhere alone "
― Rupi Kaur , Home Body
142 " our fuller selves are not off in the future they’re right here in the only moment that exists i don’t need fixing i will be searching for answers my whole life not because i’m a half-formed thing but because i’m brilliant enough to keep growing everything necessary to live a vivid life already exists in me "
143 " Play is when we escape time "
144 " happiness grew oldwaiting for meand i grew oldsearching for happinessin places it did not live "
145 " ya tenemos cosas que pueden completarnos es sólo que no son cosas son personas y risas y conexión "
146 " estaba intentando encajar en un sistema que me dejaba vacía – capitalismo "
147 " you are one personbut when you movean entire communitywalks through you- you go nowhere alone "
148 " you are one personbut when you movean entire communitywalks through you-you go nowhere alone "
149 " i have never known anything morequietly loud than anxiety "
150 " my body is so hot from wanting youi’m spilling by the time we take our clothes offi want the kind of love thattranscends meinto another realmi want you so deepwe enter the spirit worldgo from being gentle to roughi want eye contactspread my legs toopposite ends of the roomand look with your fingersi want my soul to be touchedby the tip of yoursi want to comeout of this roomdifferent people- can you do that "
151 " capitalism got inside my headand made me think my only valueis how much i producefor people to consumecapitalism got inside my headand made me thinki am of worthas long as i am workingi learned impatience from iti learned self-doubt from itlearned to plant seeds in the groundand expect flowers the next daybut magic "
152 " i’m either romanticizing the past or i’m busy worrying about the future it’s no wonder i don’t feel alive i’m not living in the only moment that’s real "
153 " i miss the days my friendsknew every mundane detail about my lifeand i knew every ordinary detail about theirsadulthood has starved me of that consistencythat usthe walks around the blockthe long conversations when we weretoo lost in the moment to care what time it waswhen we won and celebratedwhen we failed and celebrated harderwhen we were just kidsnow we have our very important jobsthat fill up our very busy scheduleswe compare calendars just to plan coffee datesthat one of us eventually cancelscause adulthood is being too exhaustedto leave our apartments most daysi miss knowing i once belongedto a group of people bigger than myselfthat belonging made life easier to live- friendship nostalgia "
154 " no one is qualified to decide your worthyou wake up and live your life every dayyours is the only opinion of youthat matters "
155 " today i saw myself for the first timewhen i dusted offthe mirror of my mindand the woman looking backtook my breath awaywho was this beautiful beastlingthis extra-celestial earthlingi touched my face and my reflectiontouched the woman of my dreamsall her gorgeous smirking back at memy knees surrendered to the earthas i wept and sighed at howi’d gone my whole lifebeing myselfbut not seeing myselfspent decades living inside my bodynever left it onceyet managed to miss all its miraclesisn’t it funny how you canoccupy a space withoutbeing in touch with ithow it took so long for meto open the eyes of my eyesembrace the heart of my heartkiss the soles of my swollen feetand hear them whisperthank youthank youthank youfor noticing "
156 " se está manteniendo una conversación dentro de ti presta mucha atención a lo que tu mundo interior está diciendo "
157 " don’t ask me why i didn’t leave he made my world so small i couldn’t see the exit "
158 " silly girllittle angellittle devilso oblivious tobeing the miracle workeryou are the motherthe magicianthe master of your life "
159 " what a relief to discover that the aches i thought were mine alone are also felt by so many others "
160 " the need to survivelit a fire in me "