1. If you can look at the sunset and smile, then you still have hope.2. If you can find beauty in the colors of a small flower, then you still have hope.
3. If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly, then you still have hope.
4. If the smile of a child can warm your heart, then you still have hope.
5. If you can see the goodness in other people, then you still have hope.
6. If a heavy rain breaks on a roof top, still calm you to sleep, then you still have hope.
7. If the sight of a rainbow still makes you stop and stare with your emotions filled with surprises, then you still have hope.
8. If the soft fur of a favorite pet still feels pleasant under your fingertips, then you still have hope.
9. If you meet new people with a trace of excitement and optimism, then you still have hope.
10. If you give people the benefit of doubt, then you still have hope.
11. If you still offer your hand in friendship to others that have touched your life, then you still have hope.
12. If receiving an unexpected card or letters still brings a pleasant surprise to you, then you still have hope.
13. If the suffering of others still fills you with pain and frustration, then you still have hope.
14. If you refuse to let a friendship die or accept that it must end, then you still have hope.
15. If you look forward to a time or place that is quiet for reflection, then you still have hope.
16. If you still watch love stories or want the endings to be happy, then you still have hope.
17. If you can look to the past and smile, then you still have hope.
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18. If, when faced with a bad situation when you were told that everything is pointless, but then you can still look up and the conversation with a phrase, "Yeah... but" then you still have hope.
We should all know that HOPE is such a marvelous thing. It could bend, twists, sometimes hides, but it rarely breaks. Hope sustains us when nothing else can. It gives us the reason to continue and have the courage to move on and then take the lead, when we tell ourselves that we would rather give in.
Hope always puts a smile on our face especially when the heart is too weak to contain everything. It takes our feet on the path, when our eyes cannot see it. Hope also takes us to act when our souls are confused of the direction on which way to go.
As we live with our lives every day, we should always bear in our minds and in our hearts that HOPE is such a wonderful thing. It is something to be cherished and nurtured as time goes by. Something that would replenish our souls and it could also be found in each one of us. It could bring light into the darkest places and encourages us to NEVER lose hope.
