Affirmation Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes,…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

— 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

“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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

— 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

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper representations.”

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

— Mary Catherine Bateson