“Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Empathy
“I would also like to tell the world that animals love. There's not an animal on this planet that will copulate with anything that comes along. Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. Unless you're stuck in a laboratory cage -- and you know, if you spend your entire life in…”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Animals, Attraction
“It has all of the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person. And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction: tolerance, you need to see them more,…”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've…”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Rejection
“Around the world, people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They tell myths and legends about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love.”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Romantic
“Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it?”— Helen Fisher, ted.comTagged: Love, Existential Crisis