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

Shannon L. Alder Beliefs Big Picture Change Your Perception Choices Compassion Empathy Growth Hardships Hatred Insight Lessons Learned In Life Life Perspective Realism Realist Reality Self Assessment Self Evaluation Spirituality Struggles Truth Wisdom

Look around you… There! Yes, there!! There's what you need to succeed.

~ Nike Thaddeus

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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

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We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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God whispered, You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Battles Confidence Conflict Dating Decisions Delusion Dignity Divorce Empty Family Fantasy Fights Friends Glass Is Half Empty Goals Incomplete Inner Work Love For One Another Marital Issues Mental Health Real Life Reality Relationship Problems Relationships Self Absorbed Self Esteem Self Evaluation Self Help Self Improvement Self Love Self Work Self Worth Selfish Selfishness Seperation Shallowness Staying Positive Strife Therapy Value

Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

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It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

~ Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson Courage Self Awareness Self Discovery Self Evaluation

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

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Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.

~ A.c. Anderson

A.c. Anderson Growth Life Responsibility Self Evaluation

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Face Hard Hardest Honesty Humility Introspection Myself Self Self Evaluation Self Study

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

~ Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer Beginning Beliefs Critical Thinking Critical Thought Disagreement Evaluation Self Self Evaluation Thought Views

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Anger Blame Frankness Honesty Introspective Justification Self Evaluation Self Honesty

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

~ Zane Grey

Zane Grey Humility Maturity Self Evaluation