Helen Fisher Quotes

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• People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

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  Valentines Day, Song, Motivation

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• Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

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  Heart, Finding Love, Open Heart

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". www.oprah.com. February 2009.

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• Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Romantic Love

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• At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

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  Hate, Love Is, Opposites

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• There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

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  Falling In Love, Brain, Important

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• Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Romantic Love

  "The brain in love". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

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  Romantic Love, Love Is, Brain

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• Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

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  Falling In Love, Chemistry, Sometimes

  "The Laws Of Attraction". Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. January 13, 2009.

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• You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

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  Falling In Love, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Sharing The Good Life". Prezi Inc., prezi.com. November 15, 2013.

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• We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Challenges

  "The mysteries of love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.

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• Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

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  Views, Brain, Shapes

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• Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

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  Kissing, Chemicals, Saliva

  "Falling in love: It's all about brain chemistry". Interview with Michelle Brence, www.oregonlive.com. February 17, 2009.

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• A world without love is a deadly place.

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  Love, Valentines Day, World

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• Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

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  Frustration, Romance, Juliet

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• Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

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  Pests, Alive, Menace

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

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  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

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• The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Romantic Love

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• There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

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  Sex, Romantic Love, Attachment

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• There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.

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  Falling In Love, Hate, Real

  "This divorce just isn't working out: Will you (re)marry me?" by Laura T. CoffeyLaura, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

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  Jealous, Insecure, People

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• A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

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  Children, Commitment, Years

  "After All of the Celebrity Divorces, Do You Still Have Faith in Marriage?" by Sarah Wildman, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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• That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

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  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

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  Men, Two, Feet

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• Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

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  Love, Men, Triggers

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• What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

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  Sex, Honesty, Lying

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