308 Quotes by 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.

I've seen you around. You liken yourself a bad ass, and darlin', you are. Minus the bad.

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.

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

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.

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

In a fit of anger he had said to her, "You'll always be miserable," to which she thoughtfully replied, "Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...you know, people like you.

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

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