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.
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today…
So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!