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

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.

It will happen but it will take time.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.