The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONFear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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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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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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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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