Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

~ 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

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't make her whole life purpose her man. She understands that he is her counter part to achieving whatever she is to accomplish on this earth with the blessings and talents God has given her. He is part of the plan, not the whole plan.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don’t live by other people’s time tables, I live by Gods.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of potential doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Addiction by any other name is love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If he loves you he will meet your effort.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To think because you have been “saved” that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn’t fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have to be told how you should feel then those feelings are not strong enough to make you feel alive; they become rules that don’t fit your life script. Not every person will place the same importance as you do on one of the six human needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection/love, growth or contributions. When you know what is most important for yourself and learn to recognize what need is the most important to others, then you can begin to unlock the real reason behind conflict.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.

~ Shannon L. Alder