hope is a fxcking strategy
Design is hope made visible.
History tells us that collective action works. Yet drawing a strict line between individual and communal endeavours is a false dichotomy. Our personal actions are not a pointless drop in the ocean, for the simple reason that their ripple effects can turn into waves.
Roman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
‘Hope is optimism with a broken heart'. This means that hope has an earned understanding of the sorrowful or corrupted nature of things, yet it rises to attend to the world even still. We understand that our demoralisation becomes the most serious impediment to bettering the world. In its active form, hope is a supreme gesture of love, a radical an
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(Fehinti Balogun)
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
Lewis Thomas • Seven Wonders by Lewis Thomas
The existence of a word like respair adds to our multilayered understanding of what hope looks like in the first place. If hope is something that we can return to anew, and rediscover after periods of despair, then hope is grittier and more robust than we give it credit for. In other words, we can trust it. We can trust that our hope is bigger
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