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Related: About this forum"TO BE HOPEFUL"
TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and placesand there are so manywhere people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we dont have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
― Howard Zinn
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I leave you with this thought.
Love Peace and Harmony
radical noodle
(8,749 posts)We have to have hope to be able to take care of one another.
sheshe2
(87,896 posts)yes.
brer cat
(26,411 posts)We can make it better for someone even if we can't fix the darkness all around us.
Love, peace and harmony to you, sheshe.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)thanks....
sheshe2
(87,896 posts)You are welcome...