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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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