Donna Lynn Hope Quotes

A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is...but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone, endure hardships and learn from what challenges them. Suffering purifies and makes beautiful, but only if the gem can shine.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Life is for the loved, not the lonely. She lamented. Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it’s not one person that is to blame, but both.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He had felt viable being near her or knowing she was listening to him or having the comfort of their casual meeting within a dream. With her, he simply and effortlessly felt better. They all felt better, unburdened, cared for, and heard. Being connected to her eased his suffering as he gave her his. It was only when she began to drown in the cumulation of commingled torments that to save whatever part of her was left, she disconnected, and when she did, his suffering returned and remained with him longer than she had. But instead of saving herself, it was the additional burden of her own anguish from letting them all go that took her breath and inevitably pulled her under.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It's always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Suffer he commanded seductively. With me...or because of me.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It’s easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering, Suffer and then do all of the above.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

For those who praise God and say “God is good,” or, ‘I’m so blessed,” when you get what YOU want, try praising Him and saying, “God is good,” and “I’m so blessed,” when you’re suffering. To do the first is effortless. The masses do it, that's how easy it is. To do the latter requires something greater: strength, faith and gratitude - no matter the ouch involved.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She was asked, “What do you see in him?”Taken aback, she replied, “What does he see in me?”Others too wondered why she chose him – not as handsome as the others, not one with a lot of possessions or even status, but little did they know, as little minds go, that she chose the one who wanted her most.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There is enchantment in wondering...in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight...

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs, doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Hate. The word is thrown around as uselessly and as often as love is, and is used as a means in which to accuse and inflict damage; the weak-in-argument (weak in general) use it to discredit those with whom they disagree rather than dissect the issues for what they really are. I liken it to the predictable ad hominem attack, which is about as transparent as those who so ridiculously claim to know what’s in the heart of another.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It's not that I am above feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It seems that the people who come into our lives and stay for the briefest amount of time have the greatest impact upon us. Time may change some things, but not all things. Each day brings me closer to him, and the age in which he passed from this world into the next, but I still fight the urge, on rare occasions, to pick up the phone and dial his number, which I still remember. It's decades later, but that last meal we shared, laughing and smiling at each other from across the table, lost in harmony, seems but yesterday. Then there was the last lingering look and the final wave goodbye.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.

~ Donna Lynn Hope