Quotes of Jeanne Safer - somelinesforyou

“ People are more likely to fall intensely in love when they are anxious and their selfesteem is lowest.... Feeling inadequate, unhappy, and empty are virtual prerequisites for falling and staying desperately in love; at least temporarily, the ecstasy of desire seems to cure everything that ails you. There is a connection between aversive states of mind loneliness, shame, even grief and horror and a propensity to feel overwhelming passion; this is one reason why romances blossom in times of war or natural disasters, as well as during the private disasters of our everyday lives. ”