BREAKING NEWS: Suspected killer caught in Florida. Discussion in 'New England' started by kwflatbed, Jan 11, 2008. BROCKTONâ The man wanted in the shooting death outside a Main Street liquor store was captured in Florida by authorities, law enforcement officials said today.
Full Definition of OPTIMISM. 1. : a doctrine that this world is the best possible world. 2. : an inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome.
Understood in this way, hope is a state of mind, a wish or thought born from distress and defeat. But hope is also a dynamic process involving the active pursuit of goals, a determination of how to reach these goals, and the willpower to see them to fruition. Hope makes us creative; it challenges us to discover strategies for survival through the use of commitment, connection and action. In the end, hope engenders faith. It forces us to think and act with a higher power in mind. Psychologists have long studied the formation and growth of hope in infants and children.