Rupi Kaur Quotes

If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I don't torture myself.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.