Born Quote by Maria Montessori

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each…

— Andreas Capellanus

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

— Guillermo del Toro

A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience…

— M. Russell Ballard

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

— George Eliot

Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

— Maria Montessori

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

— Melanie Klein

“A void devoid of parental love in a child are often filled with love of a stranger”

— Fahad Basheer

“To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment…

— Andrew Solomon

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

— William Godwin

The maternal instinct is in me.

— Katy Mixon