Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well. It is the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.
Václav Havel
When I grew up in East Germany, Václav Havel was known as – what they called at the time – a dissident and as a writer, whose books we were prevented from reading, whose theatre plays I never saw. During the Prague Spring and the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, he provided an on-air narrative on the radio and was banned from all theatres after the supression of the Prague Spring in 1968. Later he was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic.
I have nothing to add to his quote in the context of his story.
I heard this quote today in a lecture by Margaret Wheatley.
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