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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
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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Commitment Decision Life Morning People Pieces Yourself
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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Children Finding Togetherness World
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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