Isn't it such a tragic thing. When you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

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About Rupi Kaur

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Rupi Kaur (Punjabi: ਰੂਪੀ ਕੌਰ; born 4 October 1992) is an Indian-Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author. Born in Punjab, India, Kaur immigrated to Canada at a young age with her family. She began performing poetry in 2009 and rose to fame on Instagram, eventually becoming a popular poet through...

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Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

People go, but how they left always stays.

—Rupi Kaur in Milk and Honey

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

—Charlie Chaplin

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The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don't trust it.

—Katy Regnery

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

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The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

—Thomas H. Huxley

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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