The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
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.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.
Romantic love is not an emotion. . . . It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young. . . This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.