Shannon L. Alder Quotes

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

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

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?

~ 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

If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ 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

There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know.

~ 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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.

~ 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

What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.

~ 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

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

With humor and humility you can withstand anything.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Reality was once a dream that took flight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your mind is the voice for your heart.

~ 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

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

We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

~ 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

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

~ 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

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Real women don't tell the world or elude to it on Pinterest, Facebook or any other social media platform that they are in an awful relationship. It is disrespectful to the person you say you love. Plus, it is self abusive to yourself. Ask yourself these questions: What if everyone you knew read it? Would your significant other be upset or humiliated? Why are you posting it (pity, anxiety, fear, desperateness, inmaturity)? And why do you want people to know?

~ 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

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

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.

~ 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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

~ Shannon L. Alder