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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Rebecca Solnit
Commitment, Giving, Annihilation
Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Rebecca Solnit
Memories, Exploring The World, Giving
Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.

Rebecca Solnit
People, Giving, Profound
Source: therumpus.net

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