Hope is an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish a desire with anticipation".
Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness and despair.
Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson argues that hope comes into its own when crisis looms, opening us to new creative possibilities. Frederickson argues that with great need comes an unusually wide range of ideas, as well as such positive emotions as happiness and joy, courage, and empowerment, drawn from four different areas of one’s self: from a cognitive, psychological, social, or physical perspective. Hopeful people are "like the little engine that could, [because] they keep telling themselves "I think I can, I think I can". Such positive thinking bears fruit when based on a realistic sense of optimism, not on a naive "false hope".
The psychologist C.R. Snyder linked hope to the existence of a goal, combined with a determined plan for reaching that goal:Alfred Adler had similarly argued for the centrality of goal-seeking in human psychology, as too had philosophical anthropologists like Ernst Bloch. Snyder also stressed the link between hope and mental willpower, as well as the need for realistic perception of goals, arguing that the difference between hope and optimism was that the former included practical pathways to an improved future.D. W. Winnicott saw a child's antisocial behaviour as expressing an unconscious hope for management by the wider society, when containment within the immediate family had failed.Object relations theory similarly sees the analytic transference as motivated in part by an unconscious hope that past conflicts and traumas can be dealt with anew.
H.O.P.E.S. (Help of Patients in Exigency by students) is a registered, non-governmental, non political patient welfare organization run by the students of Karachi Medical and Dental College with the sole aim of helping the under privileged patients of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital by providing them life saving drugs and other medical facilities. H.O.P.E.S. was established in 1995. Currently, the organization is running a free of cost Drug Bank, Pharmacies and a Diagnostic Lab.
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, the teaching hospital of Karachi Medical & Dental College, was in appalling need of a philanthropic organization. In 1995, the first group of Karachi Medical & Dental College pondered upon the need for a welfare organization in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where many patients died or left sparsely treated due to very high expenditure of treatment.
"When we started working on this project, at the beginning it was just an experiment to assess the need and outcome of such an initiative, we worked and it paid off. Today H.O.P.E.S. is progressing at a substantial pace."
Dreams is a 2004 Tamil Malayalam romantic film directed by Kasthuri Raja and produced by Saraswathi Srikanth. The film featured Raja's son Dhanush in the lead role with Diya and Parul Yadav playing other pivotal roles. The film opened to negative reviews and became a failure at the box office.
The project was launched shortly after the success of Thulluvadho Ilamai in 2002, but as Dhanush's Kaadhal Kondein became a large success, Dreams was stalled temporarily as Dhanush's dates became blocked. The film ran into a legal tussle with the makers of his other film, Sullan, with the producers adamant that Dreams was released first although to no avail. The film's delay meant that Dhanush shot ten straight days for the project to complete it, while the delay also had resulted in failings in continuity. By the time of the release, the producer Srikanth and director Kastoori Raja were still engaged in a legal tussle.
"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. It is the only U.S. No. 1 hit for the group where it sold over a million copies, and remains one of their best known songs.
The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording Rumours. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bassist John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboardist Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and lead singer Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explained Buckingham to Blender magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."
Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."
Dreams is the nineteenth album by Klaus Schulze. It was released in 1986, and in 2005 was the third Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. The reissue bonus track was released early 2004 in Hambühren as a limited promo CD Ion.
All tracks composed by Klaus Schulze.
If I could only speak to you,
Like I did it before,
Why did it all have to change,
I know nothing no more,
(Living on hopes and dreams)...
I get all my promises,
I kept you deep in my heart,
But now you won,
You have won my feelings,
My hopes and dreams,
Left without a meaning,
I am lost and blind,
With no change of mind,
What is there left to do...
If I knew that you were mine,
I´d keep a lock on my heart,
I keep you warm with my delight,
I´d know, we´d never part...
Hopes and dreams,
(They died without your love),
They let my heart on fire,
Hopes and dreams,
Were build upon secrets,
Now I´m waiting now,
For your love...
Are flowing with the wind,
Like a turbo going stronger,
Hopes and dreams,
Were build upon secrets,
Now I´m waiting now,
For your love...