The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
In life, you don't get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.