Emotion - Hopeful

Definition: hopeful

• Having or manifesting hope.
• Inspiring hope; promising.
• To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
• A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.

Contemplation

Hope gives us a little push to urge us to keep going. If were just let ourselves believe that we could never achieve something, how depressing the world would be. Hopefulness sees us through the bad times. It is our hope which lets us see those bad times as a time that may soon end in light. It lets us be strong and determined even when all odds seem to be against us. It is hope that sometimes lets us defy the odds.

An example of the world without hope. Hope was personified in Greek mythology as Elpis. When Pandora opened Pandora's Box, she let out all the evils except one: Hope. Apparently the Greeks considered Hope to be as dangerous as all the world's evils. But without hope to accompany all their troubles, humanity was filled with despair. It was a great relief when Pandora revisited her box and let out hope as well.

Synonyms:

Optimistic, confident, expectant, faithful, trustful

Songs of hope

Mandy Moore - Only Hope & David Usher - Fast Car

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) you will have hope and be made hopeful. --W. Clement Stone

Quotes:

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. --Martha Beck

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. --Thomas Edward Brown

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country. --Bainbridge Colby

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. --George Eliot