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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Criticism Growth Mistake Oneself Question Regret
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Death Parents Realization Return Time
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
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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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
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
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
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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Answer Finding Fragment Learning Pattern Pleasure Share

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