25 Bittersweet Milk and Honey Quotes from the Book About Life

Will you live your one life loving and respecting yourself or will you live trying to receive the acceptance of others?

These Milk and Honey quotes will get you thinking.

The book Milk and Honey is a #1 New York Times bestseller by Rupi Kaur.

It’s a book filled with poetry and prose about some of life’s most challenging moments and what can be learned from them.

It’s divided into four sections: the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. 

The book is written without capitalization or punctuation which is a nod to her mother language of Punjabi.

However, she has also noted that she enjoys the simplicity and equality of not using capitalization and punctuation.

And many reading her book have found it adds to the rawness of the emotions shown through her work. 

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Also, check out our most popular quote article, a list of short inspirational quotes for daily wisdom. 

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Inspirational Milk and Honey Quotes

1. “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise” – Milk and Honey

2. “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it” – Milk and Honey

3. “for you to see beauty here does not mean there is beauty in me it means there is beauty rooted so deep within you you can’t help but see it everywhere” – Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey Quotes about strength

4. “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it – there is nothing purer than that” – Milk and Honey

5. “you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out” – Milk and Honey

6. “Never feel guilty for starting again” – Milk and Honey

7. “to heal/you have to/get to the root/of the wound/and kiss it all the way up” – Milk and Honey

8. “it takes monsters to steal souls/and fighters to reclaim them” – Milk and Honey

9. “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives” – Milk and Honey

10. “you do not just wake up and become the butterfly—growth is a process” – Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey quotes about relationships

11. “you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else” – Milk and Honey

12. “i am not a hotel room i am home/i am not the whiskey you want/i am the water you need/don’t come here with expectations/and try to make a vacation out of me” – Milk and Honey

13. “I know i should crumble for better reasons but have you seen that boy he brings the sun to its knees every night” – Milk and Honey

14. “i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire” – Milk and Honey

15. No, it won’t be love at first sight when we meet it’ll be love at first remembrance cause i’ve seen you in my mother’s eyes when she tells me to marry the type of man i’d want to raise my son to be like” – Milk and Honey

16. “The right one does not/stand in your way/they make space for you/to step forward” – Milk and Honey

17. “Nothing is safer/than the sound of you/reading aloud to me—the perfect date” – Milk and Honey

18. “he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips he didn’t call me beautiful first he called me exquisite” – Milk and Honey

19. “There is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually  loving you” – Milk and Honey

20. “Love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love” – Milk and Honey

21. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant” – Milk and Honey

22. “love will come and when love comes love will hold you love will call your name and you will melt sometimes though love will hurt you but love will never mean to love will play no games cause love knows life has been hard enough already” – Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey quotes about break ups

23. “when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough he was not able to carry it” – Milk and Honey

24. “i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you i left because the longer i stayed the less i loved myself” – Milk and Honey

25. “You were not wrong for leaving/you were wrong for coming back/and thinking/you could have me/when it was convenient/and leave when it was not” – Milk and Honey

Did you enjoy these Milk and Honey quotes?

The Milk and Honey quotes above highlight how important it is to love ourselves.

If we do not love ourselves, how can anyone else truly love us?

People will see you how you see yourself.

If you choose to look negatively at yourself others will also.

Don’t set boundaries for yourself.

Continue to grow and give the world the best of yourself.

As you continue to grow you will meet new people and expand your horizons. 

If you are waiting for the right person to come along to complete you, then you will never be complete.

Instead, know that you are enough just as you are.

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