Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Heart

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To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Rebecca Solnit

Heart, Mean, Hopeful

"We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

Rebecca Solnit

Book, Heart, Beats

Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Rebecca Solnit

Heart, Breathing, Balance

Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin