Donna Lynn Hope Quotes & Sayings

Would it discourage a stalker from stalking if he knew that they knew? — Donna Lynn Hope

When they want you in secret they don't really want you. They want the adventure. Give them one by telling them where they can go. — 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

When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic ... that's when you know they're basic. — 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

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

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?
Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him. — 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

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. — Donna Lynn Hope

Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you. — Donna Lynn Hope

When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ... — Donna Lynn Hope

Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else. — 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

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

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

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits. — 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

Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me. — Donna Lynn Hope

Her heart is as soft as her curves and neither are easy to access. — 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

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

I don't make excuses, so don't make excuses for me. When I'm being an ass, it's because I have one. — 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

Unless its done on purpose, crumbs and cleavage don't go together. — Donna Lynn Hope

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim. — Donna Lynn Hope

Apathy. What's hard to understand? They don't care. Not until it affects them. — Donna Lynn Hope

When someone says they feel old, I always want to ask them why they feel old. Time passes for everyone. No one is exempt. — Donna Lynn Hope

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it. — 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

I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind. — 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

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

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage? — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance. — 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

They say love inspires. Guess what inspires more? An enemy. — Donna Lynn Hope

People fight over parking spaces more than they do for each other; then they bemoan the fact they can't find love. — Donna Lynn Hope

You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost. — Donna Lynn Hope

I thought I would prefer apathy over this," I confided to her. "Why?" she asked. "Are you saying you would rather be cold than comforted? He's looking at you and offering his hand in friendship and you're rudely looking away pretending not to notice. At least with him you wouldn't be so alone." I felt my eyes turn into colorless pools as I glared at her for stating the obvious. "Being numb to someone is better than feeling something," I explained. "Safer you mean," she interrupted. I sighed and continued, "When someone who was once significant in your life comes back after an extended absence, emotions you had finally freed yourself from are reawakened, and if that's not enough to contend with, dormant memories are summoned whether you want them to be or not." "And what is it that you want?" she posed triumphantly. I swallowed my anger and thought with defeat, "Nothing anyone can give me. — Donna Lynn Hope

It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She's been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn't last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart. — 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

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

You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do. — 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

I'm drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of. — Donna Lynn Hope

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline? — Donna Lynn Hope

If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that ... They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that ... unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair. — Donna Lynn Hope

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary. — Donna Lynn Hope

How predictable; As if appearance is all that matters for people who can't see with anything other than their eyes. — Donna Lynn Hope

Love is such a force onto itself that it doesn't wreck havoc when it beats for others. — Donna Lynn Hope

If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don't. It's not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don't waste moments waiting and wondering. Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up. — Donna Lynn Hope

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice. — 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

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

Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right? — 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

The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything. — Donna Lynn Hope

She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much. — Donna Lynn Hope

She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her. — Donna Lynn Hope

You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek! — Donna Lynn Hope

Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there. — Donna Lynn Hope

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You'll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen. — 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

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down. — Donna Lynn Hope

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him. — 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 appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse ... throw them away. — 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

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 found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. — Donna Lynn Hope

You're not interesting in the least," she spat. "I don't need to be," I smiled. "That's what you need ... And you're welcome to it. — Donna Lynn Hope

A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched in worry. The mine was filled with toxic gases and the Canary began to sing. She flew into danger, realized the threats around her, and wished to return to a place of refuge. — Donna Lynn Hope

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable. — Donna Lynn Hope

Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances. — Donna Lynn Hope

My fear is that he'll forget me," she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment. — 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

You love the word love but you don't really love and you don't want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do. — 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

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

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. — 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

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

Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy. — Donna Lynn Hope

I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye. — Donna Lynn Hope

A vast number of people bemoan the lack of love in their lives and one must wonder if it's because they're looking for a "type" or have a list of requirements that someone else has to meet first, in which case it's no wonder that they miss out, because when you love, it's not that all that you were looking for is found in another, it's that the person you love ends up making you see they are what you wanted all along; love, after all, is usually found in unforeseen places with the most unexpected people. — Donna Lynn Hope

I do not find myself beguiled, let alone enchanted by mortal man or woman with their pretense, show or adornments, yet when I'm alone in the pine-scented cloak of forested mountains, I'm both.

It was nearing sunset in the treasure state with not another soul in sight and despite my own plainness and insignificance, I never felt more grounded or at peace; it's a tranquility only the curvaceous, imposing landscape of the frontier can provide and I was free of the trepidation within my thoughts as I gratefully and prayerfully walked with God. All was well within me and around me for that blissful yet brief moment in time. — Donna Lynn Hope

The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above. — Donna Lynn Hope

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Nothing shocks me anymore ... except pure intentions. — Donna Lynn Hope

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for? — Donna Lynn Hope

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them. — Donna Lynn Hope

I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for. — Donna Lynn Hope

What was I to you? he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything. — 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

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