“Hope implies a deep-seated trust in life that appears absurd to those
who lack it … The worst is always what the hopeful are prepared for.
Their trust in life would not be worth much if it had not survived
disappointments in the past, while knowledge that the future holds
further disappointments demonstrates the continuing need for hope …
Improvidence, a blind faith that things will somehow work out for the
best, furnishes a poor substitute for the disposition to see things
through even when they don’t.”
--quote from Christopher Lasch, The New York Times
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