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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 ... — Mary Catherine Bateson

Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Our little actions of love, when put together, can make a big difference. — Kcat Yarza

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. — Maria Sharapova

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing. — Caroline Kepnes

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you. — Bill Hicks

She crushed it, telling herself she was going to add Big in front of her Idiot tattoo. — Nalini Singh

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know. — Paulo Coelho

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. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Men are better than this theology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. — Robert Brustein

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

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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

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. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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

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

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms. — Pema Chodron

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. — Charles Krauthammer

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. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,. — Angela Merkel

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. — Mary Catherine Bateson

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now. — Anais Nin

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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

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

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one. — John Woo