"Of all the forces that make for a better world,...
 

...none is so powerful as hope. With hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream. If you have hope, you have everything."

Charles Henry Sawyer. American Photographer. 1868-1954.

Thanks for sharing. :smiley:

with men, this is impossible. With GOD, all things are possible.

This is by all means possible... so long as that hope isn't derailed and shattered by absolute faith in others without doubt or question..

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Very thought provoking quote Tal. I so agree that hope is the thing that keeps people going. Those who have lost hope are often the ones who take their own lives, and tragically, the lives of others. I remember when my father was living with my wife and I in his last years. He would walk outside and walk around his car, sometimes opening the hood to check the oil or antifreeze, sometimes wiping off the windows. He couldn't drive due to many infirmities, but you could tell he was thinking he would get better and once again gain his independence. My wife saw him one day and said "You need to tell your dad that he is never going to be able to drive, and he needs to get that out of his head". I replied, "No, we can't take away his hope, it is all he has. You and I know he will never be able to drive, but he needs to think it is possible."

That's wise. I often felt that all I had left was hope but that did not mean that I stopped trying to come up with some back-up plan. My great uncle committed suicide in AZ in 1992 mainly because he lost all hope because of his debilitating disease and he felt like he did not want to be a burden to anyone else. Plus, he had a lot of very strange habits that would have made him quite hard to live with. I do know he would have done almost anything for a friend as he got banned from Costa Rica- a place he loved-- because he put himself up for bail for a friend and the friend skipped the country. He had to get out of Costa Rica permanently.

Nice quote but I would argue LOVE is the force that makes for a better world as the good book says and I'm working from memory of the King James version so my quote may be off a word or two. "these three things remain: faith, hope and love. The greatest of these is love"

I have faith I will win the lottery. I have hope I will win the lottery. I love to win the lottery. I have faith I have a distant uncle who will leave me a large inheritance. I hope...........:a040:

Very wise indeed. We took the car away frm from my father as he couldn't see very far and didn't see what was in front of him. We became concerned he would run over a child and he was danger on the road.

Unfortunatley, taking his independence, (hope), away from him was the beginning of the end as he lost his will to live and his health deteriorated from that point going forward.

That is why I didn't sell dad's car until after he passed. I did hide his keys though.

You are a smart dude, Ed.

BTW - Are you getting the blizzard where you are?