Stayingpositiveu Com Quotes

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

~ Shannon L. Alder

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ 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

You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you feel entitled is the moment you feel superior and distance yourself from a humble heart that believes God knows what he is doing.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn't fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?

~ Shannon L. Alder

The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!

~ Shannon L. Alder

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world, It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn't love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don't want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that are hard to let go of. The key to freedom is to realize that love is never wasted. The only thing wasted in life is the time you spend focusing on an unhappy situation that will never change to fit your needs, and not realizing the true investment of time and love are the lessons God wanted you to learn.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.

~ 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

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

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

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

~ 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 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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you want to be happy you have to study people who are happy. You have to hang out with people that are happy. Life won't go in the direction you want, by simply trying to stay positive in a life you're not happy with. You have to know what you want and why you truly want it so badly. When you figure that out then you need to change your current identity, in order to fit the type of person you envision would make those dreams come true. Happiness is not reliant on the actions or inactions of other people. It is your “courage in motion” toward your dreams.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. However, many of us will raise the requirements so high that we can't even reach them or better yet, realize that we could find that expectation met by our own introspection and action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won’t miss a thing.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

~ Shannon L. Alder