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661. Mood affects what you perceive.
The way you feel determines the details that you will perceive.
For example, if you feel sad you will notice more details that you associate with sadness. If your mood is that it’s just not your day, your mind will perceive details that reinforce this assumption.
When you are in a positive mood you tend to ignore these negative details, even though they are still around you.

662. The people that you fall in love with represent undiscovered qualities in your personality.
The things you love about the people you are attracted to or in love with, are holes in your personality you try to fill. Those are the things you haven’t yet figured out how to meet in yourself and you are projecting unto them.
You recognize these things in them, these aspects that are asleep in you. You recognize yourself in them, the best version of yourself, and that’s who you fall in love with.
That’s why after a break up, majority of people miss the person they were with their partner much more than they miss their partner. Of course, this does not mean that we don’t ever really love each other. Real love for others is a different kind of love that you keep for them even after a break up.

663. Abused children often manifest a “freezing” response. In the presence of an abusive parent or adult, their arms will lie dormant at their sides and they avoid eye contact, as if they are trying to disappear. They are essentially “hiding in the open,” which is a tool of survival.

664. People are typically perceived as more attractive when they tilt their heads.

665. In most of the cultures, men find that younger women are more attractive than older women. Whereas women are attracted towards older men.