Quotes by Donna Lynn Hope

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. Youre alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they cant relate to you and what youve been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state.

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.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when theyd rather hurt than hurt another.

You cant be in my world...You live in this one.

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

You dont build a family by tearing down another one.

I cant help it. You bring it out in me, he accused. No, I said. Youre choosing to let me get to you. Dont. Its all in the mind.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

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 didnt conquer me, or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?

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. Its 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 doesnt 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.

Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.

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

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

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.

I love men. I also hate men; I wouldnt want to be in a world without them but I have to say, its not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. Its only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.

Youre flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesnt he want to sleep with?

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

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.

Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else’s theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to “find your happiness,” then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it’s willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it’s veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself.