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I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

One of the hardest things is to create hope.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.