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I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome. Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you. ~ People assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. — Rebecca Solnit

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I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome. Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you. ~ People assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. — Rebecca Solnit
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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 13:08:21 JST Paul Cantrell
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@kaoudis
She really is. Here’s the larger quote (that’s now on my office door), which is cherry-picked from this piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers

In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.jp permalink