Romantic love is an addiction.Helen FisherTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Romantic love is an addiction.
“In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.”Helen FisherCourtship
“You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.”Helen Fisher
“Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.”Richie SamboraAddiction
“I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.”Walter BeckerAddiction
“In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.”
“The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.”Helen FisherCelebrities
“Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.”Helen FisherAttracted
“Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.”David SheffAddiction
“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”Christopher LaschAddiction
“Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.”Vikram PatelAddiction