Hope
There is strong evidence that hope is good for us, and if imagination helps us to hope, then we should worry if it is blocked.
from Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
Keely Adler added 1mo ago
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 4mo ago
- “Work-related Resilience, Engagement and Wellbeing Among Music Industry Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multiwave Model of Mindfulness and Hope”
from How Hope Beats Mindfulness When Times Are Tough by Kristin L. Scott
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
- in times of intense stress or adversity, future-oriented thinking such as hope may be more effective than mindfulness in sustaining positive mindsets and action-oriented outcomes such as engagement.
from Work‐related resilience, engagement and wellbeing among music ...
Mary Martin added 22d 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 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 9mo ago
What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever
from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel by Gabrielle Zevin
sari added 1y 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 1y 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 6mo ago