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Hope, writes the moral philosopher Kieran Setiya,18 “keeps the flicker of potential agency alive.”
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
This is how we should approach life’s hardships, finding possibility where we can: the prospect of flourishing despite infirmity, of finding one’s way through loneliness, failure, grief, confronting the injustice and absurdity of the world. The question is not whether we should hope, but what we should hope for.
Kieran Setiya • What’s the Use of Hope?
I hope to_________________.
The hope we associate with grace, redemption, deliverance; the hope, not that things will get better, but that we will simply, doggedly make it through to the other side.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
I hope
Tim: I think optimism is the expectation that things are going to be OK. That we’re going to get a good outcome. Hope is much more about meaning; hope is the will to hold on to our values in the face of difficulty. Optimism is one kind of hope, a rather flimsy sort of hope. What we need now is a more resilient kind of hope, one not based on an
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
What is hope? Hope is the act of wanting something to happen or to be true. Hope means that we are not giving up on our country or ourselves.