« All Limbic Quotes
·
Helen Fisher's Page
Limbic Quotes by Helen Fisher
1 Limbic quote by Helen Fisher
More Quotes by Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher has 149 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A world without love is a deadly place.
-
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's…
-
That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the…
-
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a…
-
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
-
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.…
-
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.…
-
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of…
-
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and…
-
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.
-
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.
-
I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
See all 149 quotes by Helen Fisher »
More Limbic Quotes
Popular Limbic quotes from across the collection:
-
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the…
— Carol Muske-Dukes
-
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple.…
— Jonathan Nolan
-
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going…
— Helen Fisher
-
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system…
— Jasper Fforde
-
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in…
— Jeanette Winterson
-
But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her…
— Lisa Genova
-
It is impossible for you to judge a person about his divinity unless and until the Kundalini reaches at least this part,…
— Nirmala Srivastava
-
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust…
— Nancy Gibbs
-
The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
— Robin Marantz Henig
-
Near the hypothalamus, are pressure points of that, when electrodes are implemented, can cause extreme sexual pleasure. Subjects (especially females) have reported…
— Johnny Luckett
See all Limbic Quotes »
Browse Helen Fisher Quotes by Category