John Bowlby Quotes

• We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

  John Bowlby

  Needs, Unmet Needs, Needy

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

  John Bowlby

  Venture, Life Is, Daring

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

  John Bowlby

  Strong, Emotional, Human Nature

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• If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

  John Bowlby

  Children, Parent, Cherish

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

  John Bowlby

  Despair, Misery, Indifference

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

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

  John Bowlby

  Mother, Children, Community

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• 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.

  John Bowlby

  Animal, Men, Light

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

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