Hope sustains and stimulates, comforts and cheers, encourages and inspires us. It engenders in us patience and perseverance. Let us then hope, and hope wisely. Let not our hopes be disproportionately high, lest the frustration of extravagant hopes and the foundering of wild dreams drive us to despair. When hope leaves our breasts and fades away, we are chilled to the heart and despair fills our souls.
Despair is blank and barren and bankrupt.
It is an end, devoid of any future. A beacon of thy hope alone can lighten the gloom of our despair, O merciful God. Let us not mourn over the sorrows of yesterday, forgetful of the joys that tomorrow has in store for us. Let us not gloat over the dead yesterday of despair, when tomorrow is dawning with tidings full of hope. Thou, Ahura Mazda, art hope itself.