Václav Havel said this quote

“ Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. ”

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This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

~ Václav Havel

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

~ Václav Havel

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

~ Václav Havel

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.

~ Václav Havel