308 Quotes by Donna Lynn Hope

You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

Why do you need worldly things to define you? Why do you need a rank or a status to tell others who you are? Why concern yourself with the capricious opinions of others who are less impressed with who you really are and more impressed by the carefully crafted image you present to them - an image that is entirely surface with no inherent value? Take away the things and the status and see who notices you.

Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust.