John Bowlby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Mother #Children #Community
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
-- John Bowlby

#Strong #Emotional #Human Nature
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.
-- John Bowlby

#Despair #Misery #Indifference
If we value our children, we must cherish their parents
-- John Bowlby

#Children #Parent #Cherish
Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base
-- John Bowlby

#Venture #Life Is #Daring
We're only as needy as our unmet needs.
-- John Bowlby

#Needs #Unmet Needs #Needy

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

John Bowlby famous quotes

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