Donna Lynn Hope Quotes

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Underneath the sky, so void of light, the rain soaked me through. I held on to the railing and felt calm, even content, and then he had to reach through the dark, raise my temperature and make my heart beat a little bit faster. Not very gallant I should say...especially so close to bedtime. Friend or not, should he rob me of sleep, I'll be sure to take his.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You can't be in my world...You live in this one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You don't build a family by tearing down another one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say I feel nothing than to admit I feel something. It takes no courage to say, I hate you but it takes a great deal of moxie to declare its opposite. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them special, it makes them like everyone else. Sometimes our hearts scream yes while our heads say run; and only one can be obeyed.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else’s theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to “find your happiness,” then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it’s willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it’s veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.

~ Donna Lynn Hope