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John Bowlby Quotes

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

Needs, Unmet Needs, Needy

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

Venture, Life Is, Daring

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

Strong, Emotional, Human Nature

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

Children, Parent, Cherish

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

Despair, Misery, Indifference

John Bowlby (1946). “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].”

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

Mother, Children, Community

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.

Animal, Men, Light

John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge

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