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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Greatness Imagination Live Tradition
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Death End Meaning Story Time
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
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Constant Illusion
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
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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Care Design Human Learning Need Society Work
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Fear Forget Goodness Philosophy Teacher Wisdom
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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Address Affirmation Conflict Development Early Finding Ourselves
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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Character Entertainment Experience Life Positive Repetition
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Empowerment Future Leadership Present
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
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society

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