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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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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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I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to save the world until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.
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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
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This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.
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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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Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
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I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
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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.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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