I really love this quote by late Czech President Vaclav Havel on hope: “Hope is ...

... definitely not the same as optimism. It’s not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

It is hope, above all, that gives us strength to live and to continually try new things,
even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now.

In the face of this absurdity, life is too precious a thing to permit its devaluation by living pointlessly, emptily, without meaning, without love, and, finally, without hope.”