Helen Fisher Quotes About Falling In Love

Quotes about: Falling In Love

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Brain, Important

• Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Fall, Choices

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.23, Macmillan

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

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

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

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Fall, Challenges

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

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Chemistry, Sometimes

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

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  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.

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Growing Up, Thinking

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

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