Quote

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

Frances Moore Lappé

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
Author
Writer
Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
Avoiding
Opposite
Opposites
Fear
Good
Life

More quotes by Frances Moore Lappé

Image
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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
Image
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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
Image
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Image
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
Frances Moore Lappé