Feeling pity for someone is doable for an emotionally shortsighted partner. However, the partner needs to avoid the temptation to save and rescue. For example, "I'm sorry your dog died. I bought you a puppy so that you can feel better. You'll thank me later."...

The imagination powers the way you see the past, present and future. The image of the future is hope. Hope is built by what you feed it today.

The best food for hope is knowledge, understanding and faith. Learning new things helps us broaden our horizon. Understanding things helps broade...

• Realistic hope: It is hope for an outcome that is reasonable and possible. For example, hope for ease from chronic pain, knowing that complete eradication is unrealistic.
• Utopian hope: It is a collectively oriented hope that combined actio...