Hope itself is the basis of hope.

“The case for hope has never rested on probable facts or rational assessment. Hope by its very nature is independent of the apparatus of logic. What gives hope its power is not the accumulation of demonstrable facts but the release of human energies generated by the longing for something better. The capacity for hope is the greatest fact in life. Hope is the beginning of plans. It gives people a destination, a sense of direction for getting there, and the energy to get started. It enlarges sensitivities. It gives proper values to feelings as well as to facts. The case for hope, therefore, rests on the phenomenon of hope. What holds people back today is not the pressure of realities but the absence of dreams.”

– Norman Cousins, Saturday Review

(December 26, 1970)

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

-Anonymous