Donna Lynn Hope

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."
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"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
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
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
"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
"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
"Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life."
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
"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
"Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it."
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
"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
Donna Lynn Hope
"Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation."
Donna Lynn Hope
"You can't be in my world... You live in this one."
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
"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
"The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?"
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
"I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?"
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
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