What Is Hope? 4/52. #LifeThisWeek. 9/2019.

This year I hope to be well and continue to progress as successfully as I am in terms of my health

I am hoping that my next visit to my Head & Neck Cancer surgeon will bring only good news.

It is hoped that all the children who are born into this world today will have health, shelter and love in their lives.

What is hope?

I really cannot qualify it. My statements of hope above are a mix of “good wishes and good luck”.

I went to quotations sites and here are ones about hope that had meaning for me.

Where there’s life, there’s hope.

Theocritus (c.270 BC)

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all seems lost. Accepting what you cannot change doesn’t mean you have given up on hope. It just means you have to focus your hope on more humanly tangible and attainable goals.

Julie Donner Andersen

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Barbara Kingsolver

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.

Author Unknown

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.

Anne Lamott

Then I gathered some photos from my collection which are messages I see as hope.

What is hope?

Denyse.

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