Wise Mating Quotes

“Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it is unfortunate. But when it happens thrice or more, it is a pattern indicating primitive, uncivilized inhuman behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Try to respond to your partner instead of reacting.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Monogamy is not a choice, it is a responsibility of a genuine human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love? The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and said, “I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.”
We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best for us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“True love is born out of the pyre of two committed souls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A relationship is not just about sex – it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“A good marriage, where both partners are exclusively committed to each other, keeps them healthier both physiologically and psychologically, by directly influencing the nervous system and immune system.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Marriage is in fact, one of the healthiest social constructs of the civilized society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy