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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.

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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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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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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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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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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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 human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion

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