Monday, January 11, 2010

hope.

Good morning, sunshines! i am up bright and early this am, totally unusual i know. i hope you haven't keeled over from shock! anyhooo..

my wonderful cousin sent me this via text and i thought i would share it with you all...

Hope.

Honesty: admitting feelings, emotions, problems, and shortcomings to oneself and to those we care about.
Optimism: keeping yourself aware that things may not be the way we want them to be, but we can make them better in time.
Persistence: continuing to attempt to change what is not right in our lives, even while we know we will not succeed the first time, but getting up and trying again, time and time again.
Enlightenment: finding peace with ourselves, know that we are a product of our past and our values. that our worth is how we affect others about us, not how we think we are perceived by them.

Hope.

love you my beautiful friends
lis

3 comments:

  1. You can tell your cousin I say THANK YOU!
    Because this is just what I needed.

    Thank you, also, Lisa. Thank you for sharing this - it's beautiful. I'm going to print this out, and put it on my wall, that's how much I love this.

    Love,
    Eleanor. xo

    ReplyDelete
  2. awww, Eleanor thats so sweet. it definitely helped me also, so i figured i would share it with you beautiful gals.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hi Lisa - I just found your blog and love today's post - what a wonderful and inspiring way to look at the word hope - I have a chalkboard in my kitchen and am going to write it on there so I can read it each morning!!!!!! Thanks - nice to meet you and will definately read your blog daily - aimee

    ReplyDelete