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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 ...

Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

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.

Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving.

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.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

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

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82]