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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world can be better than it is. The man w...more

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Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely ho...more

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It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the d...more

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It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and emb...more

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He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shut...more