Tammara WebberI try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.Â
About This Quote
Hope is a very difficult thing to manage. It can be both a blessing and a curse. It can make us optimistic and hopeful about future possibilities. But it also can blind us to the truth of a situation, and lead us down paths that are not always the most logical.
The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson said, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," but that's not true. Hope is a thing that is based more on wishful thinking than on fact. In this quote, I see someone who doesn't know how to react to hope because they have been so disappointed in the past by it.
They have been burned so many times by hope that they have lost faith in their ability to believe it again.
Source: Between The Lines
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