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For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.
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Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.
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What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Frances Moore Lappé
The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.
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You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
Frances Moore Lappé
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
Frances Moore Lappé
The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
Frances Moore Lappé
When we say we have hit the limits, we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.
Frances Moore Lappé
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and not enough to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.
Frances Moore Lappé
A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
Frances Moore Lappé
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
Frances Moore Lappé
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
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Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
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Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
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