Why does neglecting your friends place you at considerable risk of ill health and guarantee that your life will be much less joyous and satisfying? Because for a significant number of people – a number that’s growing year on year – their friends fulfil the role of a romantic partner, a child and even a whole family.
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Just as the past has contained moments of collective euphoria and panic, so will the future.
- Alex Danco, Understanding Abundance, Part 4: What will not change
Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win.
Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away.
- Rebecca Solnit, Hope is an Embrace of the Unknown