In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater.
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Maria Popova
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Commencement 2016, 2016
Construction is far more difficult because it requires the capacity to imagine something new and better, and the willingness to exert ourselves toward building it, even at the risk of failure.
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Maria Popova
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Commencement 2016, 2016
The moment you focus on that, you vacate your own soul.
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Maria Popova
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Commencement 2016, 2016