Quotes About Bonding

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

At my house, when a missing pawn shows up in the Scrabble tiles, it counts as an extra blank.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

women with variants of genes that produce higher levels of oxytocin or oxytocin receptors average higher levels of touching their infants and more synchronized gazing with them.

So oxytocin is central to female mammals nursing, wanting to nurse their child, and remembering which one is their child.

Oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate mother-infant bond formation and monogamous pair-bonding, decrease anxiety and stress, enhance trust and social affiliation, and make people more cooperative and generous. But this comes with a huge caveat—these hormones increase prosociality only toward an Us. When dealing with Thems, they make us more ethnocentric and xenophobic. Oxytocin is not a universal luv hormone. It's a parochial one.

For starters, circulating oxytocin levels are elevated in couples when they've first hooked up. Furthermore, the higher the levels, the more physical affection, the more behaviors are synchronized, the more long-lasting the relationship, and the happier interviewers rate couples to be.

Thus, oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate bonding between parent and child and between couples.fn10 Now for something truly charming that evolution has cooked up recently. Sometime in the last fifty thousand years (i.e., less than 0.1 percent of the time that oxytocin has existed), the brains of humans and domesticated wolves evolved a new response to oxytocin: when a dog and its owner (but not a stranger) interact, they secrete oxytocin.

Como Sullivan e seus colegas escreveram, "o apego [de tal filhote] por quem cuida dele evoluiu para garantir que o filhote estabeleça uma ligação com o cuidador, independente da qualidade dos cuidados recebidos". Em uma tempestade, qualquer mãe serve.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

Ya no me inquieté más por pasar la montaña, pues sabía que lo haría, y del otro lado mi padre y yo cazaríamos juntos el ave punzón en las Tierras Bajas Abrasadas, saliendo juntos, protegiéndonos mutuamente del peligro, colaborando en el rastreo y en el ataque final, conociendo una intimidad que nunca había existido entre nosotros durante mi niñez.

Information or education has the power to bind people closer together by the common experience.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?' 'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father.

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Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of, laughed Anne. Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps? I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot, said Priscilla, but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure...

I wish I could like the baby a little bit. It would make things easier. But I don't. I've heard people say that when you took care of a baby you got fond of it—but you don't—I don't, anyway.

Give us a chew, said Mary companionably. Nan, Di and Faith all produced an amber-hued knot or two from their pockets and passed them to Mary. Una sat very still. She had four lovely big knots in the pocket of her tight, thread-bare little jacket, but she wasn't going to give one of them to Mary Vance—not one Let Mary pick her own gum! People with squirrel muffs needn't expect to get everyt

Begin the fun, the fun's begun. One for all, and all for one.