Our psyche needs hope to survive the way a fish needs water. Hope is the fuel for our mental engine.

This is the fundamental problem of hope — not an educated Thinking Brain, but an uneducated Feeling Brain, a Feeling Brain that has adopted and accepted poor value judgments about itself and the world.

How attractive a man is is inversely proportional to how needy he is. The more needy in his life, the less attractive and vice-versa.