There are two ways to live; one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Hope is a state of mind, not a state 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 headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel