Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

- Jerome Groopman

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a bett…

- Jerome Groopman

Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope temper…

- Jerome Groopman

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate…

- Jerome Groopman

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off…

- Jerome Groopman

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

- Jerome Groopman

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human s…

- Jerome Groopman

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism…

- Jerome Groopman

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enk…

- Jerome Groopman