Hope

Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation".

Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness and despair.

In psychology

Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson argues that hope comes into its own when crisis looms, opening us to new creative possibilities. Frederickson argues that with great need comes an unusually wide range of ideas, as well as such positive emotions as happiness and joy, courage, and empowerment, drawn from four different areas of one’s self: from a cognitive, psychological, social, or physical perspective. Hopeful people are "like the little engine that could, [because] they keep telling themselves "I think I can, I think I can". Such positive thinking bears fruit when based on a realistic sense of optimism, not on a naive "false hope".

The psychologist C.R. Snyder linked hope to the existence of a goal, combined with a determined plan for reaching that goal:Alfred Adler had similarly argued for the centrality of goal-seeking in human psychology, as too had philosophical anthropologists like Ernst Bloch. Snyder also stressed the link between hope and mental willpower, as well as the need for realistic perception of goals, arguing that the difference between hope and optimism was that the former included practical pathways to an improved future.D. W. Winnicott saw a child's antisocial behaviour as expressing an unconscious hope for management by the wider society, when containment within the immediate family had failed.Object relations theory similarly sees the analytic transference as motivated in part by an unconscious hope that past conflicts and traumas can be dealt with anew.

Hope (Ukrainian political party)

The People's Action Party "Hope" (Ukrainian: Партія Народної Дії «НАДІЯ») was founded on 18 March 2005, and has a presence in 27 regions and 525 districts of Ukraine. It is headed by Sergei Selifontiev, who created the "light parliamentary movement" in contrast to what he felt was a shady parliament of the day. On the day of its inception, 1,200,000 citizens of Ukraine joined the party.

References

Hope (2014 film)

Hope is a 2014 French drama film directed by Boris Lojkine. It was screened as part of the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the SACD Award.

Cast

  • Endurance Newton as Hope
  • Justin Wang as Léonard
  • References

    External links

  • Hope at the Internet Movie Database
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    No Quarter

    by: Jimmy Page

    Close the door, put out the light
    You know they won't be home tonight
    The snow falls hard and don't you know
    The winds of Thor are blowing cold
    They carry news that must get through
    To build a dream for me and you
    Ohhhh, choose the path where no one goes
    They ask no quarter, ohhhh
    Oh, no, no, no quarter
    Walking side by side with death
    The devil mocks their step
    The snow drives back the foot that's slow
    The winds of Thor are blowing cold, ohhhh
    They're wearing steel that's bright and true
    To build a dream for me and you
    They choose the path where noone goes
    They, they ask no quarter
    Ohh, ohh, no quarter
    Ohhhh, visit me with no quarter
    Ohhhh, the pain with no quarter
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
    Okay, okay




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