Hope For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE. Despaire The same, without such opinion, DESPAIRE.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hope is appetite with belief of attaining; despair is the same appetite without that belief.
- In plain terms
- Hope is wanting something and believing you can get it; despair is wanting it but believing you cannot.
- What can you take from it?
- Belief determines whether desire becomes hope or despair.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What fuels your hope?
- How does belief change desire?
Another view
It reduces complex emotions to simple cognitive states.
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