Shannon L. Alder Quotes

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you're in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.

~ 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

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

~ 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

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

~ 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

Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.I write past the embarrassment of exposure.I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares.I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.I write to remember.I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.I write because speaking can’t be reread.I write to sooth a mind that races.I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.I write to provide a legacy.I write to make sense out of senselessness.I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories.I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.

~ 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

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ 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

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

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

~ 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

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

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

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

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

~ 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

Dear my strong girls, you will all go through that phase of life making a mistake of helping a toxic girl whose friendship with you turns into her self-interest. This kind of girls is a real burden towards the empowerment of other females as they can never get past their own insecurity and grow out of high-school-like drama. Despite how advanced we are in educating modern women, this type will still go through life living in identity crisis, endlessly looking for providers of any kind at the end of the day. They can never stand up for others or things that matter because they can't stand up for themselves. They care what everyone thinks only doing things to impress men, friends, strangers, everyone in society except themselves, while at the same time can't stand seeing other women with purpose get what those women want in life. But let me tell you, this is nothing new, let them compete and compare with you as much as they wish, be it your career, love or spirit. You know who you are and you will know who your true girls are by weeding out girls that break our girlie code of honor, but do me a favor by losing this type of people for good. Remind yourself to never waste time with a person who likes to betray others' trust, never. Disloyalty is a trait that can't be cured. Bless yourself that you see a person's true colors sooner than later. With love, your mama. XOXO

~ Shannon L. Alder

If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.

~ 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

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first.

~ 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

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

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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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Lies don't end relationships the truth does.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Closure /klōZHər/ Noun1. The thing women tell you what they want, but secretly they really want you to tell them why you don’t want them again, so they can try one last time to convince you that you were wrong. 2. The warped mentality that having someone tell you honestly why they don’t want you is going to somehow make you feel peace, so you can move on.3. The neat packaging of finishing conversations because you have been stewing over it insecurely about the length of what a stalker does. 4. The one thing women don’t give themselves because if they didn’t care about the jerk they wouldn’t still be hanging onto another conversation that tells them what they already know: He just isn’t that interested in you.5. The anal retentive art of perfecting every ending with meaning, rather than just excepting you went through something rather sucky and he doesn’t care.6. The act of closing something with someone, when in reality you should slam the door.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, I want to know why!

~ Shannon L. Alder