About This Quote
Thoreau said, "Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom." To live fearlessly means to live without any fear. Fear is what keeps us from doing many things that are good for us. Fear is what tells us that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Fear is what keeps us from enjoying life, friends, and love. But, fear can be overcome by hope. It's hope that gives us strength to make decisions and to go forward.
Hope can be defined as a sense of expectation for a specific outcome or future event...or an expectation that something good will happen one day, even though nothing seems quite certain today.
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