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I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.

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

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  2. Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair. – Donna Lynn Hope
  3. In His thirty-three years on earth, Jesus suffered with man; on the cross He suffered for man. – Billy Graham
  4. Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas – Langston Hughes
  5. We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope. – Debasish Mridha
  6. I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting? – Donna Lynn Hope
  7. The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? – Donna Lynn Hope
  8. 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
  9. Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation. – Donna Lynn Hope
  10. You don’t build a family by tearing down another one. – Donna Lynn Hope
  11. Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it. – Donna Lynn Hope
  12. Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life. – Donna Lynn Hope
  13. 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
  14. Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is. – Donna Lynn Hope
  15. I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die. – Donna Lynn Hope
  16. Don’t focus on her hiss. Remember her purr. – Donna Lynn Hope
  17. I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it. – Donna Lynn Hope
  18. He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time. – Donna Lynn Hope
  19. He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night. – Donna Lynn Hope
  20. I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him. – Donna Lynn Hope
  21. When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don’t bash them and never love them. – Donna Lynn Hope
  22. I’m impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man. – Donna Lynn Hope
  23. He was on her mind but she doesn’t let anyone stay for too long. – Donna Lynn Hope
  24. 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
  25. If someone calls you a failure it’s more than likely they feel like one. – Donna Lynn Hope
  26. If someone calls you a failure it’s more than likely they feel like one. – Donna Lynn Hope
  27. Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control. – Donna Lynn Hope
  28. When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them. – Donna Lynn Hope
  29. Is it me you’re describing, or yourself? – Donna Lynn Hope
  30. The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to. – Donna Lynn Hope
  31. Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love’s durability. – Donna Lynn Hope
  32. I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities. – Donna Lynn Hope
  33. Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom. – Donna Lynn Hope
  34. Some things you sentence yourself to life for. – Donna Lynn Hope
  35. You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt. – Donna Lynn Hope
  36. I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep. – Donna Lynn Hope
  37. The only stirrups I like are on a saddle. – Donna Lynn Hope
  38. Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude. – Donna Lynn Hope
  39. Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you. – Donna Lynn Hope
  40. If they don’t walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying. – Donna Lynn Hope

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