Quotes of Octavio Paz

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

- Octavio Paz

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“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ”

- Demi Lovato

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth