(13 quotes found)
“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
“Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”
“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.”
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.”
“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.”
“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.”