Frances Moore Lappé Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Compassion, Expression, Empathy

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

• I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

• I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Thinking, Essence, Challenges

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Confusion, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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