Hope

Hope is another important family of positive emotions. We need it to train us to be optimistic, trusting, resilient and to maintain our focus in times of adversity and hardship. It helps us to persist and keep working toward our goals even in difficult times.  It encourages us to cope with setbacks. It is our student companion as we make our journeys through life. And finally, to quote Barack Obama, "it is that stubborn thing inside us that insists we can, despite all the evidence to the contrary." One without hope is dead. In the words if Tony Benn, a British socialist politician, "Hop