Hope is the emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Despair is the opposite of hope. Hope is the "feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" or the act of "look[ing] forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence" or "feel[ing] that something desired may happen". Other definitions are "to cherish a desire with anticipation...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Where no hope is left, is left no fear. ,
- Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ,
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. ,
- Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. ,
- Were it not for hope the heart would break. ,
- A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. ,
- Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. ,
- Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. ,
- With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. ,
- Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
