“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.” PeopleFirstsChildrenFactsLove IsEmotionOur LivesChildhoodDogReturnUniqueRemainsLasting Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.” IfsWorldFirstsHeartStillsSelfMatterLightValuesForceGrowsWaitingBornMemoriesDarkLove IsChildhoodYouthColdSelf LoveIdealsShiningSecureFlamesSparksIgniteDark PlacesIdeal WorldLight Of LoveSpreading Love Author:Bell Hooks
“Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.” IfsThinkingHumansEndsMatterSpeakLove IsChildhoodSpecialDogEarsNo Matter WhatSignificantClarityHuman LifeRealmsBoyhoodDog LoveLife SpanHumans And Dogs Book:DOG LOVE Source: DOG LOVE
“A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.” MeanLove IsCommonChildhoodChangedTaughtAssumptionThemeAdulthoodMisguidedLove MeansFalse Assumptions Author:Bell Hooks
“Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.” MayTwoHandsMotherChoicesGrowsLove IsBoysGrowing UpChildhoodConditionsPossibilityObjectsTaughtDegreesAttractionAnalysisForbiddenHis LoveNeuroticExhibitsTaught UsPsychoInhibitionsDevelopmentalRegression Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.” NeedsShouldPersonsFormHumanityLove IsGrowingTeachingChildhoodSubjectsCommunicationCoreSupremeAgentsDevelopingHierarchyCurriculumEarly ChildhoodNeed Love Author:Ashley Montagu
“Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.” ThinkingMenWayFirstsImportantRealFoundDifficultLove IsRoomsExistencePovertyImagineChildhoodPositionImaginary Author:Catherine Camus
“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.” LostLove IsChildhoodThirdsInnocenceGet BackOne LoveLost You Book:Checkers Source: Checkers
“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.” PeopleFeelsProblemWould BeFallLove IsEmotionChildhoodFalling In LoveAdolescenceSuitableEvokeNo LoveInvoluntaryPersonal History Book:Hector and the Secrets of Love Source: Hector and the Secrets of Love
“Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.” IfsThinkingI CanMotivationalStrongChangeLove IsChildhoodStrengthFaultsDeeperStuckVery StrongEraseCan't ChangeErasersImprinting Author:Louise Hay