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As joy gives way to dreaming, our hope becomes more and more secure. We begin to believe that what is will not always be, that the ache will not always linger. And we may even begin to believe that we are worthy of what we are hoping for.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
But hope is not what most of us think it is. It’s not a warm, fuzzy emotion that fills us with a sense of possibility. Hope is a way of thinking—a cognitive process. Yes, emotions play a role, but hope is made up of what researcher C. R. Snyder called a “trilogy of goals, pathways, and agency.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
I discovered this visionary definition in a Benedictine monastery library some years ago: Hope is “that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future,” and a quality that gives our actions “special urgency.”
Lyanda Lynn Haupt • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
“Hope (...) is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we... See more
Someday this will be
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
I hope
The hope we associate with grace, redemption, deliverance; the hope, not that things will get better, but that we will simply, doggedly make it through to the other side.