“Hope is definitely 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.” – Václav Havel (His Velvet Revolution began 30 years ago today)

Quote of the Day: “Hope is definitely 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.” – Václav Havel

(His country’s Velvet Revolution began 30 years ago today—and the playwright became Czechoslovakia’s new democratically-elected president… See GNN’s On This Day in History column for more details…)

Photo: by Erich Ferdinand– CC license on Flickr, cropped

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