Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation … - Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit. " And I have faith; maybe more than hope, I have faith. I think of my great-grandmother, Vilate Lee Romney, who came from good pioneer Mormon stock. She always said to us that faith without works is dead, so I think if we have hope, we must work to further that hope. Maybe that is the most important thing of all, to have our faith rooted in action.

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