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…
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or…