Quote by Vaclav Havel
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the c

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you dont, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. – Vaclav Havel

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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. – Vaclav Havel

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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. – Ben Kingsley

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I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. – Maynard James Keenan

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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp. – Nancy Reagan

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck

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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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