Surgeon, author, and inspirational speaker, Sherwin Nuland discusses hope. He mentions that the Oxford English Dictionary lists 14 definitions of hope and none of them are particularly satisfying. 

His remarks on hope are consistent with mine from yesterday and take a different angle to the “change of direction” that hope can represent. 
He speaks of the moral imagination and the world as a patient in its original sense. We are the healers of the world through compassion, commitment, and persistence. 

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