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
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  1. Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life. - Roy T. Bennett

  2. Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back... - Saul D. Alinsky

  3. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. - Laurence Sterne

  4. ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. - Norton Juster

  5. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

More Quotes By Mary Catherine Bateson
  1. An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

  2. 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.

  3. The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]

  4. ... 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...

  5. Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]

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