Hope Notes

I found this quote while reading about the importance of stories as a way to find meaning in our lives ~ 

"Hope is born while facing the unknown and discovering that one is not alone."

Need I say more?

(Austin MacCurtain, in a review of John Updike's Self-Consciousness that appeared in The [London] Times Literary Supplement,as quoted by Martin Marty in Context 21:15 (15 August 1989), p. 3.