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...

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
Mary Catherine Bateson

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After all most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. p. 80
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Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late it is a very stressful process one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age and undertaken too soon it may preempt other possibilities. p. 38
- 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 while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. p. 199 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 while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. p. 199
Mary Catherine Bateson