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Romantic Love Quotes by Helen Fisher
- 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…
- 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…
- Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
- 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…
- 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.
- Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
- The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that…
- The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
- Romantic love is an addiction.
- Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
- Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
- I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and…
- Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
- When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6…
More Romantic Love Quotes
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. — Pearl Bailey
- Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac
- Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. — Lynda Barry
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of… — Henry Ward Beecher
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman