Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Survival keeps the hope for a better world alive even in hard times.
- In plain terms
- Simply surviving keeps hope and grace alive.
- What can you take from it?
- Enduring hardship preserves hope.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does survival require hope?
- What keeps you going when things are hard?
Another view
It assumes hope is a constant rather than a choice.
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