I’m speaking truthfully. I’ve spent so many sleepless nights
just wondering — will I ever be able to be your hope?

“All belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty.”

ALAN W. WATTS, THE BOOK

”Instillation of hope looms large in inpatient groups because so many individuals enter the hospital in a state of utter demoralization. Until the individual acquires hope and the motivation to engage in treatment, no progress will be made. Often the most effective antidote to demoralization is the presence of others who have recently been in similar straits and discovered a way out of despair.”
Yalom, 2020, p. 144

“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.“

CARL G. JUNG, MODERN MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL

”Use hope as a tool, not a default mode of being.”
Ben Aaro (personal correspondence)

I had been dealing with my intrusive, unshakable hopes about certain men in my life with whom it had not worked out with~this was the first conversation I had that made me realize how much emphasis I had put on hope as a way of being instead of simply using it in times of need