Donna Lynn Hope Quotes

I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what's tangible and what's not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality – and everything that couldn't be counted upon.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

A relationship, of any kind, requires two. Some people want it all and expect it all, always looking outward, so often saying what they deserve, even more saying what they want, and all thinking another should provide it for them, but do they ever bother to be the person they think someone else would love to have? Perhaps, in order to get that better love, extend it first.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Sometimes, oftentimes, people hold on to someone they love for self – because it's what they want; in rare cases, a person, who sincerely knows the meaning of love, which is sacrifice, loves enough to say goodbye and to walk away. They do it because they love someone enough to allow them to move on without them or to not be torn in multiple directions, which causes confusion, or because they feel that is their only choice.Loving like that is doing for another and denying self. It is sacrifice.It takes tremendous strength and the cost is loss and heart-ache but it's a price the rare are willing to pay because they truly love that much.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, If only I could forget... But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I saw her tonight. I didn’t mean to and I wasn’t prepared for it.I came across her sweet smiling face and I had no choice but to be confronted with all the emotions and memories I associated with her.It brought me back to this past summer when she passed from this world into the next and how I watched the minutes in the day pass and felt the sorrow of the approaching sunset knowing that darkness would soon follow.There is something profound about the first night after someone you love dies.Seeing her again and mourning the loss of her anew reminded me that we keep too much to ourselves and we let people go without them ever knowing how much they touched us, intrigued us, taught us, or moved us.I’m a firm believer in actions doing the telling, but people need to hear it as well.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It is easy, and therefore uninspiring, to love within the norms of acceptance and society. Other than ones own heart, there is no great risk involved; it's all very status quo. The same is tired, but what's outside-the-norm is captivating and gets under people’s skin, pushing their buttons, making them think and revealing their depth as a person, or their lack thereof. It's love against obstacles that inspires the most – a love that faces and ultimately endures through challenges, hardship and ridicule that is courageous and triumphant.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You're sad but you hold everything back...

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don’t bash them and never love them.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'd rather know a man's sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

She’s a sickness in my head.”Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? An excuse? Bondage?You are idealizing another person, building up the idea of them, and making them a legend in your own mind.Is it really a sickness or something you can control?The question is: do you even want to?Each time a thought creeps into your mind, you choose whether to give it freedom to remain or to wander. You can rebuke it or replace it. After all, it’s your mind.

~ Donna Lynn Hope