Max Joseph Quotes

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.

I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

I'm tough, but I have a heart.

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

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.