John Bowlby
We're only as needy as our unmet needs.Collection: Needs
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure baseCollection: Venture
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human natureCollection: Strong
If we value our children, we must cherish their parentsCollection: Children
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.Collection: Despair
If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Animal