Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes About Affirmations

Quotes about: Affirmations

• ... 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.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Love, Age, Three

• 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.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Caring, Animal, Self

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

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Loss, Echoes, Identity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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