The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONAs 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.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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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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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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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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