Shannon L. Alder Quotes - Page 10

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
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The purpose of life is the lesson.
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Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.
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There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.
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I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.
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I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.
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You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.
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Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.
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Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.
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Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
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More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
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But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someone's actions, which leads to this question: Why is this person's respect so important to you?
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Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.
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People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.
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Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.
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God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
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People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
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They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
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In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.
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Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.
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Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
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God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.
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Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
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God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
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When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
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Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
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I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
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The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.
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Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.
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Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.
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Love is so many things, but it is not safe.
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Everyone’s life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written!
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Every person that has lived with purpose has at one time or another answered these questions: Do you remember who you were before the world, and it's evil stole your hope? Do you remember who you wanted to be before a religion, culture or organization told you to be something you were not? Do you remember what your dream was before they told you that it was unachievable? Do you remember the moments God kept taking you back to the one thing you were best at (but you kept denying it)? Do you remember the moments He handed you the opportunity and you walked away, instead? Do you remember the moments He kept closing the doors on the one thing you wanted because it wouldn't help you? Do you remember it was all going to be okay if you simply believed, but you gave up? For every bad moment, we blamed others, kept score, got even and forgot to live. When you remember your "true self", then you can begin to walk forward once again down the road to discovery, childhood dreams and your life purpose. (Writer's Conference, 2012)
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The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchained.No glorious hymn, just the steady beat of the illusion of time. We heal or we carry forward the weight of our wounds... To believe otherwise is the mendacity of desperation. Arising honestly. The miles behind are littered with the weight of nostalgia, but too many miles lay ahead us to carry the weight. In the end, even echoes fade away. Pen in hand...Arising to write the next chapter.(MU Articles 2013, Dedication to Joey)
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God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.
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Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.
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Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.
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Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now?
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Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.
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All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
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The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
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Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.
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It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
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When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.
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The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
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If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
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Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.
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Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.
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It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.
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God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
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Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.
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People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.
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Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.
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You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.
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Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.
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If all you do is set goals and achieve them then you have learned to be a doer. Happiness isn’t at the end of the next goal. It is the journey of aligning your choices to mold your character into the type of person who lives their belief system, then creates a life purpose that reflects that same person.
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Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
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But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars.
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Life is messy.
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Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When the nights falls, only our perception can guess where it hides in the dark. Within every solar system of the soul lies a plan of what truth is--- the design God has created, in our own unique story. This is as varying as the constellations, and as turning as the tide. It is not one truth we live to, but many. If we ever hope to determine if there is such a thing as truth, apart from cultural and personal preferences, we must acknowledge that we are then aiming to discover something greater than ourselves, something that transcends culture and individual inclinations. Some say that we must look beyond ourselves and outside of ourselves. However, we don’t need to look farther than what is already in each other. If there was any great plan from a higher power it is a simplistic, repetitious theme found in all religions; the basic core importance to unity comes from shared theological and humanistic virtues. Beyond the synagogue, mosques, temples, churches, missionary work, church positions and religious rituals comes a simple “message of truth” found in all of us, that binds theology---holistic virtues combined with purpose is the foundation of spiritual evolution. The diversity among us all is not divided truth, but the opportunity for unity through these shared values. Truth is the framework and roadmap of positive virtues. It unifies diversity when we choose to see it and use it. It is simple message often lost among the rituals, cultural traditions and socializing that goes on behind the chapel doors of any religion or spiritual theology. As we fight among ourselves about what religion, culture or race is right, we often lose site of the simple message any great orator has whispered through time----a simplistic story explaining the importance of virtues, which magically reemphasizes the importance of loving one another through service.
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