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Either we have hope within us or we do not. It is a dimension of the soul and is not necessarily dependent on some particular observation of the world. 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. It is…an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance of succeeding… [Hope] is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. It is Hope, above all, which gives the strength to live and continually try new things.
Web of Hope. Resurgence 219, July/August 2003: quoting Havel in 1990 writing
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