Hope
On the other hand, I am a believer in radical hope, by which I mean recognising that the chances of success may be slim but still being driven to act by the values and vision you are rooted in. Time and again, humankind has risen up collectively, often against the odds, to tackle shared problems and overcome crises.
The challenge we face as a civili
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A memory commensurate to the complexity of the past and the whole cast of participants, a memory that includes our power, produces that forward-directed energy called hope.
from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
from Dirt: The indomitable human spirit by Dirt
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
- Hope is a flower of a different order, one that blooms in a striving acknowledgment, even celebration, of finitude and whatever we can bear through its innumerable relations.
from Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas by John Lysaker
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
- I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain i... See morefrom Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas by John Lysaker
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
- The sleeping giant is one name for the public; when it wakes up, when we wake up, we are no longer only the public: we are civil society, the superpower whose nonviolent means are sometimes, for a shining moment, more powerful than violence, more powerful than regimes and armies.
from The Guardian by Rebecca Solnit
Mary Martin added 6mo ago
- Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the impression nothing good happened at all. In order to keep struggling to make th... See more
from 100 Positive News from 2023 | Gapminder
Mary Martin added 6mo ago
- We do not lack the resources. We lack the belief. Find the belief and so much more becomes possible.
phoebe added 8mo ago
May I turn to the light even in the darkest hour, and may I carry that light forward wherever it’s needed the most. May I always stay in touch with the hope, warmth and renewal in me, and may I bring them with me everywhere I go.
from Solstice Prayer by Made In Cosmos (Maria Górska-Piszek)
Stuart Evans added 10mo ago