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.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

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.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out