To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear. ~Rebecca Solnit via EarthLight
Monday, June 20, 2005
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I like Vaclav Havel's definition, to paraphrase since I can't remember it exactly, "Hope is not the expectation that things will turn out all right but the certainty that things make sense as they are. RCW
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