Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONAs 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.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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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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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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