Oxytocin Quotes

“i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society”

“i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society”

“Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.”

“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.”

“One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin--sometimes called the master chemical of sociability-- and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.”

“When a monkey loses a banana to a rival, he feels bad, but he doesn't expand the problem by thinking about it over and over. He looks for another banana. He ends up feeling rewarded rather than harmed. Humans use their extra neurons to construct theories about bananas and end up constructing pain.”

“Music gives pleasure because your mind keeps predicting what comes next. Each correct prediction triggers dopamine. You can't make good predictions for unfamiliar music, so you don't get the dopamine. But when music is too familiar, something strange happens. You don't get the dopamine either because your brain predicts it effortlessly. To make you happy, music must be at the sweet spot of novelty and familiarity.”

“CONSIDER THIS When things do go wrong, ask yourself whether you could have prevented it by being unhappy.”

“.......Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.”

“...... Love is physiologically a legal battle lovers fight until death".”