The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source … - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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