John Bowlby Quotes

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.