There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.