"Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the……" — Helen Fisher
"Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'"
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148 Quotes by Helen Fisher
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A world without love is a deadly place.
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths,…
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That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire…
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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…
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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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There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity…
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options…
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Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting…
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to…
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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…
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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…
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I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to…
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
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