Helen Fisher Quotes

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Love has more depth as you get older.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

The wise are wise only because they love.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.