Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hope is a moral choice.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.