If you haven't already ready Rupi Kaur's poetry book, then you MUST.

The book Milk and Honey is divided into four parts: the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing.

This book is emotional, real, and relatable. I was given this book during a very transitional and important time in my life. This was a time where I grew as an individual and fully learned to love myself. This was a defining moment for me as a young adult, in which I learned how to be comfortable and happy alone. To me this was huge accomplishment and not something that can be achieved easily. I reached a happiness I've never felt before and I was radiating - and people could tell.

When you start doing what makes you happy, when you stop letting other people affect your opinion of yourself, and when you can be alone and be content at the same time, you reach a level of self love that triumphs all your doubts. Of course we all have bad days, but this is a working and developing journey that I work towards everyday.

These quotes are every time Rupi Kaur reminded me of who I am and the influence of self love in my life:

1. "I want to be full on my own I want to be so complete I could light a whole city"

2. "I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut"

3. "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"

4. "You must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else"

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

6. "Do not look for healing in the feet of those who broke you"

7. "If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise"

8. "Fall in love with your solitude"

9. "Accept yourself as you were designed"

10. "Your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is?"

11. "You were a dragon long before he came around and said you could fly, you will remain a dragon long after he's left"

12. "The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it"

13. "How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you"

14. "You are your own soulmate"

15. "If you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else"

16. "You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first"