A Selfless Art

‘Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.’

‘The more unpromising the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope is 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.’

from Disturbing the Peace (1990) Vaclav Havel Centre