We also accept ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “We write history with our feet and with our presece and our collective voice and vision. When activists mistake heaven for some goal at which they must arrive, rather than an idea to navigate Earth by, they burn themselves out, or they set up a totalitarian utopia in which others are burned in the flames. ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “But hope is not about what we expect. After all those millennia of poetry about the moon, nothing was more prosaic than the guys in space suits stomping around on the moon with their flags and golf clubs thirty-something years ago. NEVER GIVE UP; Never lose hope. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. ― François Mauriac, quote from Viper's Tangle, “para cultivar una relación, levantar una familia, crear una cultura organizativa, dirigir un colegio, alimentar la fe en la comunidad…, todo ello de un modo que básicamente se opone a las normas culturales que marca la escasez, hace falta ser consciente, comprometerse y trabajárselo... todos los días.” To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.” ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. It means that politics arises out of the spread of ideas and the shaping of imaginations. BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. Countless desperate teenagers will tell you so. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Those heavenly bodies are useful for them to find their way, even though they never get far from the surface of the earth. It feels awkward. For paradise does not require of us courage, selflessness, creativity, passion: paradise in all accounts is passive, is sedative, and if you read carefully, soulless.” ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. ― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, “Moths and other nocturnal insects navigate by the moon and stars. ― E.J. Nobody knows the real me. 8†And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.”

― Brené Brown, quote from The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage, “Looking down at my feet, he laughs a little, and then says, "Don't turn your toes outward like in ballet." Nobody knows the thoughts that have gone through my head whenever I'm sad, and how horrible they really are. more relevant and important.

Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know.