Quotation Explorer - 'Shannon L. Alder'

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. - Shannon L. Alder

I don’t argue with fools; I educate. - Shannon L. Alder

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without. - Shannon L. Alder

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it. - Shannon L. Alder

And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life. - Shannon L. Alder

Music is feelings in search of words. - Shannon L. Alder

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it. - Shannon L. Alder

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing! - Shannon L. Alder

The life mission God gave you was only appointed to you. If you are faithful, God will send someone into your life to support it. If your are blessed, he will send someone who shares your passion. If you are chosen, he will unlock every door that stands in your way. - Shannon L. Alder

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. - Shannon L. Alder

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty. - Shannon L. Alder

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different. - Shannon L. Alder

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. - Shannon L. Alder

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love. - Shannon L. Alder

You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

W- Work of ArtA- AchieverR- ResilientR- RadicalI- IndependentO- OrganizedR- Resourceful - Shannon L. Alder

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. - Shannon L. Alder

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do. - Shannon L. Alder

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never know love's depth, until it is gone. - Shannon L. Alder

How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power. - Shannon L. Alder

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. - Shannon L. Alder

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light. - Shannon L. Alder

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future. - Shannon L. Alder

The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got. - Shannon L. Alder

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God. - Shannon L. Alder

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. - Shannon L. Alder

The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love. - Shannon L. Alder

Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage. - Shannon L. Alder

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook. - Shannon L. Alder

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction. - Shannon L. Alder

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be. - Shannon L. Alder

You either live the life that is easy or you live the life that is difficult, but appreciate it more. - Shannon L. Alder

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process. - Shannon L. Alder

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told. - Shannon L. Alder

Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure. - Shannon L. Alder

A lie has no power, until you believe it. - Shannon L. Alder

To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. - Shannon L. Alder

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change. - Shannon L. Alder

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully. - Shannon L. Alder

All it takes is one person to question the possibility of a different way of life, in order to unlock a chained heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen. - Shannon L. Alder

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow. - Shannon L. Alder

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry. - Shannon L. Alder

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

The only way through pain is love. - Shannon L. Alder

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees. - Shannon L. Alder

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause. - Shannon L. Alder

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others. - Shannon L. Alder

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus. - Shannon L. Alder

Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs. - Shannon L. Alder

We live with the scars we choose. - Shannon L. Alder

God is always willing to give you the best life possible. If you change your mind at any time you are free to go back to enjoying hell. - Shannon L. Alder

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Your mind is the voice for your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time. - Shannon L. Alder

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. - Shannon L. Alder

Silence by any other name is called shame. - Shannon L. Alder

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours. - Shannon L. Alder

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it. - Shannon L. Alder

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it. - Shannon L. Alder

There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most. - Shannon L. Alder

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person. - Shannon L. Alder

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most. - Shannon L. Alder

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. - Shannon L. Alder

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently? - Shannon L. Alder

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken. - Shannon L. Alder

Life is messy. - Shannon L. Alder

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves. - Shannon L. Alder

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict. - Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie. - Shannon L. Alder

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds. - Shannon L. Alder

Music is the emotions that words can not express. - Shannon L. Alder

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love. - Shannon L. Alder

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get. - Shannon L. Alder

victimnoun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior. - Shannon L. Alder

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. - Shannon L. Alder

Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive. - Shannon L. Alder

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences. - Shannon L. Alder

Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul. - Shannon L. Alder

The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth. - Shannon L. Alder

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn't being confident; it is called being a doormat. - Shannon L. Alder

Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you. - Shannon L. Alder

God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs. - Shannon L. Alder

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine. - Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight. - Shannon L. Alder

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. - Shannon L. Alder

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled is the moment you feel superior and distance yourself from a humble heart that believes God knows what he is doing. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good. - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t ignore pain; appreciate its message: You need to change now! - Shannon L. Alder

It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules. - Shannon L. Alder

Leave a legacy of love, not a legacy of fear. - Shannon L. Alder

Learn to be a responder, not a reactor. - Shannon L. Alder

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system. - Shannon L. Alder

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream. - Shannon L. Alder

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations. - Shannon L. Alder

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable. - Shannon L. Alder

Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune. - Shannon L. Alder

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share. - Shannon L. Alder

Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. - Shannon L. Alder

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity. - Shannon L. Alder

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Shannon L. Alder

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for. - Shannon L. Alder

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style. - Shannon L. Alder

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice. - Shannon L. Alder

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing. - Shannon L. Alder

Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind. - Shannon L. Alder

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom. - Shannon L. Alder

If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale. - Shannon L. Alder

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you. - Shannon L. Alder

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions. - Shannon L. Alder

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else. - Shannon L. Alder

There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life. - Shannon L. Alder

And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours. - Shannon L. Alder

You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly. - Shannon L. Alder

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say. - Shannon L. Alder

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud. - Shannon L. Alder

If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry. - Shannon L. Alder

God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you. - Shannon L. Alder

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, love requires extraordinary courage. - Shannon L. Alder

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth. - Shannon L. Alder

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home. - Shannon L. Alder

Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. - Shannon L. Alder

Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none. - Shannon L. Alder

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. - Shannon L. Alder

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned. - Shannon L. Alder

Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live. - Shannon L. Alder

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Your consent is your character. - Shannon L. Alder

Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness. - Shannon L. Alder

For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for? - Shannon L. Alder

When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play? - Shannon L. Alder

The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life. - Shannon L. Alder

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd. - Shannon L. Alder

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns. - Shannon L. Alder

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you? - Shannon L. Alder

No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes. - Shannon L. Alder

Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart. - Shannon L. Alder

When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest. - Shannon L. Alder

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture. - Shannon L. Alder

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God. - Shannon L. Alder

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided. - Shannon L. Alder

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right. - Shannon L. Alder

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way. - Shannon L. Alder

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. - Shannon L. Alder

I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever. - Shannon L. Alder

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. - Shannon L. Alder

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence. - Shannon L. Alder

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. - Shannon L. Alder

Have you ever considered that you shouldn't pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them? - Shannon L. Alder

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now. - Shannon L. Alder

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world. - Shannon L. Alder

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. - Shannon L. Alder

Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances. - Shannon L. Alder

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries. - Shannon L. Alder

A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action. - Shannon L. Alder

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose. - Shannon L. Alder

The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life. - Shannon L. Alder

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. - Shannon L. Alder

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in. - Shannon L. Alder

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. - Shannon L. Alder

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean. - Shannon L. Alder

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God. - Shannon L. Alder

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived. - Shannon L. Alder

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others. - Shannon L. Alder

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions. - Shannon L. Alder

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

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete. - Shannon L. Alder

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. - Shannon L. Alder

True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out. - Shannon L. Alder

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free. - Shannon L. Alder

You can spend the rest of your life fighting to be respected, accepted and understood by the people you have created a life with or you can start living a life where that isn't a daily goal and ambition in your relationship. - Shannon L. Alder

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn. - Shannon L. Alder

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. - Shannon L. Alder

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined. - Shannon L. Alder

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. - Shannon L. Alder

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Faith requires following the power of a whisper. - Shannon L. Alder

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream. - Shannon L. Alder

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with. - Shannon L. Alder

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. - Shannon L. Alder

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction. - Shannon L. Alder

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you. - Shannon L. Alder

If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream. - Shannon L. Alder

Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing. - Shannon L. Alder

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers. - Shannon L. Alder

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. - Shannon L. Alder

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one. - Shannon L. Alder

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud. - Shannon L. Alder

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not what happens to you that matters; it is how you feel about it that does. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix. - Shannon L. Alder

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home. - Shannon L. Alder

Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message--wisdom. - Shannon L. Alder

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does. - Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others. - Shannon L. Alder

Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn’t moving mountains, but God is for him. - Shannon L. Alder

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew. - Shannon L. Alder

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean? - Shannon L. Alder

God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING! - Shannon L. Alder

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise. - Shannon L. Alder

You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living. - Shannon L. Alder

Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve! - Shannon L. Alder

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in. - Shannon L. Alder

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in. - Shannon L. Alder

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living. - Shannon L. Alder

The greatest temptation you will ever have in your life is to give up on what you truly want because it seemed to difficult to have. If you put your loyalty into anything, put it into believing in yourself. - Shannon L. Alder

An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need. - Shannon L. Alder

What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do. - Shannon L. Alder

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? - Shannon L. Alder

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind. - Shannon L. Alder

Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete. - Shannon L. Alder

Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become. - Shannon L. Alder

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why. - Shannon L. Alder

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool. - Shannon L. Alder

Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life. - Shannon L. Alder

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want. - Shannon L. Alder

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. - Shannon L. Alder

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents. - Shannon L. Alder

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer. - Shannon L. Alder

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much. - Shannon L. Alder

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret. - Shannon L. Alder

Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life. - Shannon L. Alder

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost. - Shannon L. Alder

Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world--- if you only believe. - Shannon L. Alder

The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts. - Shannon L. Alder

If you can't see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever "see" something different. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen. - Shannon L. Alder

Live vertically, not horizontally. - Shannon L. Alder

Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence. - Shannon L. Alder

The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands. - Shannon L. Alder

Books open the doors that others have closed on you. - Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view. - Shannon L. Alder

If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise. - Shannon L. Alder

Stupid quotes are only Twitters in disguise. - Shannon L. Alder

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse. - Shannon L. Alder

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire. - Shannon L. Alder

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. - Shannon L. Alder

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared. - Shannon L. Alder

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value. - Shannon L. Alder

All roads out of hell lead home. - Shannon L. Alder

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain. - Shannon L. Alder

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love. - Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else. - Shannon L. Alder

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos. - Shannon L. Alder

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail. - Shannon L. Alder

God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don't ....do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness. - Shannon L. Alder

Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are. - Shannon L. Alder

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well. - Shannon L. Alder

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who thinks they have control over you. - Shannon L. Alder

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. - Shannon L. Alder

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, What is it that you want from me? - Shannon L. Alder

There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart. - Shannon L. Alder

The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points. - Shannon L. Alder

Silence is a lie that screams at the light. - Shannon L. Alder

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace. - Shannon L. Alder

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. - Shannon L. Alder

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places. - Shannon L. Alder

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending. - Shannon L. Alder

God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent! - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Shannon L. Alder

Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never. - Shannon L. Alder

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you. - Shannon L. Alder

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. - Shannon L. Alder

An insecure woman chases love; a confident woman invites a man to find her. - Shannon L. Alder

Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out. - Shannon L. Alder

Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield. - Shannon L. Alder

If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles. - Shannon L. Alder

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone. - Shannon L. Alder

Love is so many things, but it is not safe. - Shannon L. Alder

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment. - Shannon L. Alder

A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don't hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn't have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness. - Shannon L. Alder

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home. - Shannon L. Alder

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion. - Shannon L. Alder

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. - Shannon L. Alder

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess. - Shannon L. Alder

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can't see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you spend your life with someone that can't tell the difference between a diamond and dirt? - Shannon L. Alder

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person. - Shannon L. Alder

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. - Shannon L. Alder

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today. - Shannon L. Alder

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive. Because what is negative about going home? - Shannon L. Alder

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself. - Shannon L. Alder

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? - Shannon L. Alder

Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go. - Shannon L. Alder

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves. - Shannon L. Alder

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure. - Shannon L. Alder

A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond. - Shannon L. Alder

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. - Shannon L. Alder

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope. - Shannon L. Alder

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. - Shannon L. Alder

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Your blessings lay beyond your fear. - Shannon L. Alder

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego. - Shannon L. Alder

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

You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan. - Shannon L. Alder

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for. - Shannon L. Alder

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see. - Shannon L. Alder

I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never find peace when the need you cling to is not the want you desire. But when does a want become a need... when it is all you think about? - Shannon L. Alder

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. - Shannon L. Alder

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of. - Shannon L. Alder

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it. - Shannon L. Alder

Surviving isn't around us, but in us. - Shannon L. Alder

Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants. - Shannon L. Alder

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance. - Shannon L. Alder

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways. - Shannon L. Alder

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with. - Shannon L. Alder

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever. - Shannon L. Alder

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand. - Shannon L. Alder

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept. - Shannon L. Alder

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free. - Shannon L. Alder

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it. - Shannon L. Alder

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person. - Shannon L. Alder

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? - Shannon L. Alder

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most. - Shannon L. Alder

The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away. - Shannon L. Alder

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story. - Shannon L. Alder

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us. - Shannon L. Alder

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence. - Shannon L. Alder

The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs. - Shannon L. Alder

To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done. - Shannon L. Alder

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future. - Shannon L. Alder

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs. - Shannon L. Alder

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality. - Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal. - Shannon L. Alder

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see. - Shannon L. Alder

Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind. - Shannon L. Alder

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks. - Shannon L. Alder

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine. - Shannon L. Alder

People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail. - Shannon L. Alder

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. - Shannon L. Alder

A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked. - Shannon L. Alder

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles. - Shannon L. Alder

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable. - Shannon L. Alder

Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE! - Shannon L. Alder

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends. - Shannon L. Alder

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear. - Shannon L. Alder

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. - Shannon L. Alder

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! - Shannon L. Alder

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

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. - Shannon L. Alder

Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies. - Shannon L. Alder

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself. - Shannon L. Alder

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? - Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it. - Shannon L. Alder

Your most important want should be the one you can control! - Shannon L. Alder

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays. - Shannon L. Alder

Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you. - Shannon L. Alder

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long. - Shannon L. Alder

L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards. - Shannon L. Alder

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life. - Shannon L. Alder

If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left. - Shannon L. Alder

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather. - Shannon L. Alder

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have. - Shannon L. Alder

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float. - Shannon L. Alder

When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven. - Shannon L. Alder

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet. - Shannon L. Alder

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone. - Shannon L. Alder

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others. - Shannon L. Alder

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value. - Shannon L. Alder

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further. - Shannon L. Alder

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace. - Shannon L. Alder

When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

You can't have the rainbow without the storm. - Shannon L. Alder

The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day. - Shannon L. Alder

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Every person has a life mission to fulfill. Never attempt to destroy what God has put in another person to do. You don't know God's plans, but Satan will most certainly use you to stop his plans. - Shannon L. Alder

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell. - Shannon L. Alder

Telling the world you are trying is not doing. - Shannon L. Alder

To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power. - Shannon L. Alder

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God. - Shannon L. Alder

With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky. - Shannon L. Alder

You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours. - Shannon L. Alder

You don’t go to church to find God; you bring him with you—attitude. - Shannon L. Alder

The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away. - Shannon L. Alder

A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter. - Shannon L. Alder

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness. - Shannon L. Alder

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires. - Shannon L. Alder

Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment. - Shannon L. Alder

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain. - Shannon L. Alder

When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference. - Shannon L. Alder

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery. - Shannon L. Alder

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life. - Shannon L. Alder

Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because God is there with you and is preparing an army to fight for your right to live. - Shannon L. Alder

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked. - Shannon L. Alder

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same. - Shannon L. Alder

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know. - Shannon L. Alder

God doesn't always bring you the entire truth. He sometimes gives it to you in pieces, in order to learn. Regardless, it is the piece that you got today that will renew your faith for tomorrow. - Shannon L. Alder

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. - Shannon L. Alder

Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on. - Shannon L. Alder

The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character. - Shannon L. Alder

God always gives his hardest battles to his strongest warriors. - Shannon L. Alder

The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change. - Shannon L. Alder

But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars. - Shannon L. Alder

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it. - Shannon L. Alder

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you. - Shannon L. Alder

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that. - Shannon L. Alder

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern. - Shannon L. Alder

Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be born again before it is believed. - Shannon L. Alder

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it. - Shannon L. Alder

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more. - Shannon L. Alder

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase. - Shannon L. Alder

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted. - Shannon L. Alder

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light. - Shannon L. Alder

When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul. - Shannon L. Alder

Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth. - Shannon L. Alder

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be. - Shannon L. Alder

Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together. - Shannon L. Alder

With humor and humility you can withstand anything. - Shannon L. Alder

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday. - Shannon L. Alder

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others. - Shannon L. Alder

When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends. - Shannon L. Alder

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do. - Shannon L. Alder

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. - Shannon L. Alder

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. - Shannon L. Alder

The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot. - Shannon L. Alder

Stressed by any other name is fear. - Shannon L. Alder

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? - Shannon L. Alder

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? - Shannon L. Alder

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. - Shannon L. Alder

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul. - Shannon L. Alder

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one. - Shannon L. Alder

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology). - Shannon L. Alder

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love. - Shannon L. Alder

I would fight every angel between us until God said, "Yes. - Shannon L. Alder

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum! - Shannon L. Alder

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it? - Shannon L. Alder

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God) - Shannon L. Alder

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do. - Shannon L. Alder

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. - Shannon L. Alder

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free. - Shannon L. Alder

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. - Shannon L. Alder

It is not the monsters we should be afraid of; it is the people that don't recognize the same monsters inside of themself. - Shannon L. Alder

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life. - Shannon L. Alder

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong! - Shannon L. Alder

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder. - Shannon L. Alder

You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon. - Shannon L. Alder

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children. - Shannon L. Alder

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell. - Shannon L. Alder

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you. - Shannon L. Alder

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you. - Shannon L. Alder

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. - Shannon L. Alder

Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities. - Shannon L. Alder

Who would you impress if the world was blind? - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess. - Shannon L. Alder

When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue. - Shannon L. Alder

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost. - Shannon L. Alder

Reality was once a dream that took flight. - Shannon L. Alder

A coward talks to everyone but YOU. - Shannon L. Alder

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it. - Shannon L. Alder

Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark. - Shannon L. Alder

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. - Shannon L. Alder

Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better? - Shannon L. Alder

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand. - Shannon L. Alder

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving? - Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like. - Shannon L. Alder

Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them. - Shannon L. Alder

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. - Shannon L. Alder

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away. - Shannon L. Alder

Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight. - Shannon L. Alder

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough. - Shannon L. Alder

Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet. - Shannon L. Alder

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus. - Shannon L. Alder

The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need. - Shannon L. Alder

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell. - Shannon L. Alder

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant. - Shannon L. Alder

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel. - Shannon L. Alder

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. - Shannon L. Alder

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian. - Shannon L. Alder

Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder

The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it. - Shannon L. Alder

Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen. - Shannon L. Alder

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU. - Shannon L. Alder

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. - Shannon L. Alder

Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer. - Shannon L. Alder

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option. - Shannon L. Alder

Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. - Shannon L. Alder

You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been. - Shannon L. Alder

Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it. - Shannon L. Alder

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity. - Shannon L. Alder

You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time. - Shannon L. Alder

You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now. - Shannon L. Alder

You know you have found your life mission when you say, I dare you to try and take this away from me. - Shannon L. Alder

The moment you stand by an abuser and choose to remain silent you become an abuser also. In essence, you are telling God that your comfort is more important that speaking out for what is right and true. - Shannon L. Alder

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him. - Shannon L. Alder

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see. - Shannon L. Alder

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you. - Shannon L. Alder

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard. - Shannon L. Alder

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story. - Shannon L. Alder

If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility. - Shannon L. Alder

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive. - Shannon L. Alder

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. - Shannon L. Alder

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects. - Shannon L. Alder

There are always a million words behind the silence. - Shannon L. Alder

When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need. - Shannon L. Alder

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple. - Shannon L. Alder

When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple. - Shannon L. Alder

God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles. - Shannon L. Alder

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

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes. - Shannon L. Alder

When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself? - Shannon L. Alder

A very unwise man once said, He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. A very annoyed woman once said, He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long. - Shannon L. Alder

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever. - Shannon L. Alder

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW. - Shannon L. Alder

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up. - Shannon L. Alder

Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows. - Shannon L. Alder

I traveled across the world to rescue her, but when she held me as I cried I knew...... I was the one that was rescued. - Shannon L. Alder

Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David - Shannon L. Alder

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least. - Shannon L. Alder

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. - Shannon L. Alder

When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What? - Shannon L. Alder

The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun. - Shannon L. Alder

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now? - Shannon L. Alder

Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it. - Shannon L. Alder

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself. - Shannon L. Alder

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. - Shannon L. Alder

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. - Shannon L. Alder

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions. - Shannon L. Alder

It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose. - Shannon L. Alder

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are. - Shannon L. Alder

If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening. - Shannon L. Alder

Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride. - Shannon L. Alder

Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God. - Shannon L. Alder

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. - Shannon L. Alder

I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves. - Shannon L. Alder

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. - Shannon L. Alder

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind. - Shannon L. Alder

Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight. - Shannon L. Alder

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost. - Shannon L. Alder

A limited vision will only see that there is a choice between reliving the past, staying with the present or embracing the future. A spiritual person of faith doesn't make choices based on time frames. We choose based on what will bring us the most growth. - Shannon L. Alder

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world; It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. - Shannon L. Alder

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them. - Shannon L. Alder

The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy. - Shannon L. Alder

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. - Shannon L. Alder

There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know. - Shannon L. Alder

Timing is only lack of enough emotions. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived. - Shannon L. Alder

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins. - Shannon L. Alder

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are. - Shannon L. Alder

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me. - Shannon L. Alder

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. - Shannon L. Alder

Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss. - Shannon L. Alder

Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside. - Shannon L. Alder

The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done. - Shannon L. Alder

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith. - Shannon L. Alder

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. - Shannon L. Alder

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. - Shannon L. Alder

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain. - Shannon L. Alder

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it. - Shannon L. Alder

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough. - Shannon L. Alder

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am? - Shannon L. Alder

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have. - Shannon L. Alder

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage. - Shannon L. Alder

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. - Shannon L. Alder

The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you make the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process. - Shannon L. Alder

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. - Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first. - Shannon L. Alder