Shannon L. Alder Quotes

You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?

~ Shannon L. Alder

All roads out of hell lead home.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The problem was never my mind, it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.

~ 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

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

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And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.

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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

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

~ 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

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

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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

I will never be someone's last choice, second option, narcissistic supply, doormat, ego booster, sidekick, secret, last time or after thought. I am a Daughter of God that stands for truth. I know my beauty, my talents, my accomplishments, what I have to offer and who leads my life purpose: my Heavenly Father. But, most of all I know my value and I will never let any man define my worth.

~ 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

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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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

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

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The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy.

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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

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

~ 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

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

You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There will be times in your life when you will have to stand alone in your pain and choke back all the injustice done to you. Letting go will be the hardest thing you have ever had to do because it means losing something you wish you didn't have to lose--the person that you care for. However, to be authentic--one person, it requires standing for truth as you know it to be, instead of having your dignity destroyed by another. It is a fire you have to walk through, in order to truly live. Sometimes, practicing faith by letting go is the most painful chapter of your life that will take every bit of courage for you to close, before you can be reborn.

~ 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

Surviving isn't around us, but in us.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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

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Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

~ Shannon L. Alder