Hope

Hope

Hope is the emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Despair is the opposite of hope. Hope is the "feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" or the act of "look forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence" or "feel that something desired may happen". Other definitions are "to cherish a desire with anticipation"; "to desire with expectation of obtainment"; or "to expect with confidence". In the English language the word can be used as either a noun or a verb, although hope as a concept has a similar meaning in either use.

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Famous quotes containing the word hope:

    “Because I do not hope to know again
    The infirm glory of the positive hour”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “But my greatest delight is to take a good bite
    At a calf that is plump and delicious;
    And if I indulge in a bite at a bulge,
    Let’s hope you won’t think me too vicious.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Don’t crouch any more and cling to my knees,
    don’t tempt me and try me,
    don’t beg like a child and cry,
    “you have taken my hope away.”
    I am not a god.
    I cannot make you happy.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)