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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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