Octavio Paz Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Love is sacrifice.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

You've got to give away what you love.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Most people would rather give than get affection.