“If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not”
More from Rupi Kaur on Love
“how you love yourself ishow you teach othersto love you”
“fall in lovewith your solitude”
“you look at me and cryeverything hurtsi hold you and whisperbut everything can heal”
“accept that you deserve more than painful love life is moving the healthiest thing for your heart is to move with it”
“fallin lovewith your solitude”
“he saysi am sorry i am not an easy person to wanti look at him surprisedwho said i wanted easyi don’t crave easyi crave goddamn difficult”
“the idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic”
“when you are brokenand he has left youdo not questionwhether you wereenoughthe problem wasyou were so enoughhe was not able to carry it”
“I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you”
“for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”