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 BATESONThe family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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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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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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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