"Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons...hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it has a chance to succeed...hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certanty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. In short, I think that the deepest and most powerful form of hope is something we get from "elsewhere." It is also this hope, above all, that gives us the strength to live, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now."
Vaclav Havel, 1990
I was flipping through some old notes and came across this that a friend sent me. I'm not sure if it's appropriate, but I thought of you as I was reading it.
