The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.
The quote from Barbara Kingsolver’s "Animal Dreams" emphasizes the importance of hope in our lives. It suggests that simply identifying our hopes is the minimum we can do, while truly embracing and living within that hope is the ultimate goal. Living "under its roof" implies being fully immersed in our aspirations, not just passively wishing for a better future. This idea challenges us to recognize hope as an active, rather than a passive, part of our existence.
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