When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Recorded Václav Havel said elsewhere, not written here
The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don't.

Karel Hvížďala, Interviews conducted 1985–1986, published in English 1990, Václav Havel Library Foundation (havelcenter.org), 1986 source ↗

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Brian Eno Composer, record producer and visual artist
My favorite method is stopping everything for a moment. It’s amazing how difficult I find it these days to simply sit quietly.
Recorded Max Dax, Eno's London studio, 2011, Telekom Electronic Beats, 1 January 2011 source ↗
adrienne maree brown Writer and facilitator; author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
I’m taking more baths and showers to allow the water to help cleanse me and shift me.
Recorded Miriam Zoila Pérez, Colorlines, 2 December 2016 source ↗
Ahmed Zewail Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999
Arriving in the States, I had the feeling of being thrown into an ocean. The ocean was full of knowledge, culture, and opportunities, and the choice was clear: I could either learn to swim or sink. The culture was foreign, the language was difficult, but my hopes were high. I did not speak or write English fluently, and I did not know much about western culture in general, or American culture in particular.
Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1999 source ↗
Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.
Recorded Harrow School, International Churchill Society, 29 October 1941 source ↗

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