Shannon L. Alder quotes:

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  • Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

  • Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.

  • If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

  • The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

  • It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.

  • Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

  • Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

  • If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

  • When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

  • You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

  • Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

  • The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

  • If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

  • You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.

  • Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

  • True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

  • You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.

  • When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie.

  • Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

  • You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

  • If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

  • It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

  • You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.

  • Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.

  • It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

  • When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

  • No one likes a person that should of all over the place.

  • Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

  • Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.

  • There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.

  • Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

  • Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

  • Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

  • You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.

  • Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

  • There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

  • All roads out of hell lead home.

  • Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

  • It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

  • Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

  • One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

  • The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.

  • If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.

  • Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

  • Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.

  • Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

  • Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology.

  • Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.

  • You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

  • It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.

  • Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

  • Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

  • Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

  • Too many people spend their life in fear of making a mistake. However, here is the truth: Fear is the mistake. If you block out all the doubts and listen only to what you feel in your heart, then follow that course, you waste less time in indecision and spend more time being authentic. Life is too short to settle for parttime happiness.

  • Your most important wantshould be the one you can control!

  • It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

  • When does God make a want a need? When you think about it everyday and you journey that same path back to it, in order to experience what makes you feel special and alive.

  • What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

  • Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

  • No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.

  • If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

  • Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

  • He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  • Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.

  • Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

  • When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

  • God has a way of picking a nobodyand turning their world upside down, in order to create a somebodythat will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

  • The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

  • Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

  • To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.

  • Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

  • Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

  • Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

  • I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.

  • There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.

  • How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

  • When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.

  • God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

  • Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

  • You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

  • A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

  • You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.

  • More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

  • Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.

  • True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.

  • You knewand that is why it hurts so bad.

  • There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.

  • Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

  • In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

  • There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

  • Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

  • If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

  • When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

  • If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

  • It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

  • Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

  • The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.

  • If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

  • Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that selective evilness is okay is mental illness.

  • It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

  • In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

  • There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.

  • The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.

  • God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!

  • When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.

  • The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.

  • You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

  • A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

  • The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

  • A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

  • Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

  • Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

  • Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

  • When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.

  • If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

  • If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

  • Not every person wants the prettiest, smartest, talented or spiritually uplifting person to build a life with. Sometimes we just want that special someone that makes sense, puts up with us, has patience, comes without drama, gives us focus and is willing to run with our half-baked ideas.

  • Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

  • I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

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