“We never attract what we want, we always attract what we are.”

“We don't attract what we like or despise, but we attract what we are constantly thinking about. If you are thinking about pain or happiness, then you should have your share of it.”

“we attract what is happening in our lives”

“if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives”

“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

“Have you noticed that bank tellers are almost always very attractive? Is it because they're on display back there behind the glass so close and yet so far? Or is it like bartenders they have so much of what we want?”

“When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
- Sleepless in Seattle”

“Try as we will to be culturally aggrieved by day, we find the gringos kind of attractive in the moonlight.”

“In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.”

“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”