Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson

… 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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Love

Three

…a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Elements

Reflection

Trying

A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

Animal

Caring

Self

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

Numbers

Physicians

Training

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.

Art

Life

Morning

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.

Caring

Design

Memorable

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

Echoes

Identity

Loss

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

Lessons

Teacher

Teaching

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

Discontinuity

Fluidity

Reality

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Blinkers

Goal

Goals And Objectives

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Cooking

Cost

Creativity

Culinary

Culture

Cute

Death

Defined

Democracy

Depends

Design

Differences

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Diversity

Done

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Effort

Elements

Empowering

Entertainment

Essentials

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Giving

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Illusion

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Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson

… 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.

…a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

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