Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

The first love is the difficult love.

The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.