Octavio Paz Quotes

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.