Top 100 Donna Lynn Quotes
#1. So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.
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#4. All the bruised lives, searching hearts ... Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.
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#5. If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.
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#8. Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.
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#9. Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down.
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#10. Well ... that's going in the trash. (I'm not referring to an enemy either).
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#11. Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love?
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#12. Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse ... throw them away.
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#15. Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?
When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.
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#16. Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
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#17. An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.
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#18. Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.
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#19. There is no need for hyperbole. I did NOT dump you. I peeled your mask off like a banana peel, did not like what was inside, and tossed it in the trash.
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#20. They say love inspires. Guess what inspires more? An enemy.
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#21. I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.
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#22. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
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#23. Chivalry: It's the little boy that kisses my hand, the young man who holds the door open for me, and the old man who tips his hat to me. None of it is a reflection of me, but a reflection of them.
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#24. Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.
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#25. She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.
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#26. I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible anyway.
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#27. If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.
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#28. People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.
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#30. Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.
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#31. I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.
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#32. I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.
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#33. When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ...
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#34. I am not one to chase my prey. It either crosses my lips or is tossed away.
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#35. Love doesn't keep score," he challenged.
I shrugged my shoulders. "But people do ...
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#36. His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can't be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.
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#37. I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.
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#38. Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, The one who asked me to and meant it.
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#39. I'm thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.
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#40. The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.
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#41. If it's danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in the right embrace. Some people live for it, others suffer in spite of it.
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#42. Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.
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#43. Life is for the loved, not the lonely." She lamented. "Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so.
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#44. The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?
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#45. Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.
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#46. As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.
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#47. I never thought much about public displays of "Will you marry me?" It seems more like putting on a show for others rather than an intimate, private and special moment between two people.
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#48. I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.
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#49. Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.
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#50. Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.
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#51. We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.
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#52. It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.
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#53. Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure
one that leads me back home.
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#54. I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
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#55. At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.
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#56. 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.
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#57. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
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#60. There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.
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#61. I don't admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they're afraid to do.
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#63. Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.
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#64. Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.
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#65. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
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#66. One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.
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#67. How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.
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#68. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
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#69. If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
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#70. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!
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#71. Attraction isn't wrong. People can't help who they are drawn to and they certainly can't control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong is acting on inclination if it hurts someone else, namely a significant other.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Would it discourage a stalker from stalking if he knew that they knew?
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#74. I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together.
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#75. Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.
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#76. 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.
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#77. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.
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#78. What was I to you? he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.
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#79. Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn.
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#80. Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.
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#81. 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.
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#82. In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.
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#83. You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.
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#84. The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.
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#85. Suffer" he commanded seductively. "With me ... or because of me.
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#86. If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.
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#87. I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what's happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.
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#89. Good or bad, if you're not "normal," you can't have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.
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#90. If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you; not everyone is that lucky.
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#91. You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?
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#93. 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.
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#94. Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
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#95. Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.
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#96. Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.
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#97. It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good.
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#99. I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle.
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#100. Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude; play with it and introduce it.
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