Quotes About Attachment

The capacity for interpretation in psychological terms—let us call this the "Interpersonal Interpretive Mechanism," or IIM—is not just a generator or mediator of attachment experience; it is also a product of the complex psychological processes engendered by close proximity in infancy to another human being—the primary object or attachment figure.

These factors may combine to make disorganized infants become keen readers of the caregiver's mind under certain circumstances but, we suggest, poor readers of their own mental states.

The unchallenged maintenance of a bond is experienced as a source of security and the renewal of a bond as a source of

First, it is important to note that in the London data, a mother's attachment classification before the birth of the child was a powerful predictor of the child's theory-of-mind competence at 5 years; 75% of children of secure, autonomous mothers passed the cognitive-emotion task, whereas only 16% of children of preoccupied mothers and 25% of those of unresolved mothers did so (Fonagy 1997).

1 Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization

When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.

Love arises when you have a surplus; it disappears when you're reduced to the basic instincts: hunger, sleep, the need for security.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

Things and riches of this world aren't evil in themselves; what is evil is that we USE people to love THINGS instead of using THINGS to love PEOPLE.

Better to own a little that is dear to you than have all the potato fields of Sa Pobla.

Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.

It shall have two shoulder pieces attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.

and fasten the other ends of the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.

Make two more gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.

Make two additional gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.

and they fastened the other ends of the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.

They made two additional gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near the seam just above its woven waistband.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.

But the man was saddened by these words and went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.

But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.