Shannon L. Alder Quotes - Page 16

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?
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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.
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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.
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If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.
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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.
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Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Your mind is the voice for your heart.
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Reality was once a dream that took flight.
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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.
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With humor and humility you can withstand anything.
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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.
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Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.
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You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.
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What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.
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Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.
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So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.
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You either live the life that is easy or you live the life that is difficult, but appreciate it more.
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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?
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If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.
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There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know.
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Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
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You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.
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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.
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If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.
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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?
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The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.
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A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
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Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.
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I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.
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Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.
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Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.
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Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
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Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.
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The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.
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If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
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Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.
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Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
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Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
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Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose.
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The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.
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Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?
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True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.
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Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.
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When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.
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A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
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Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.
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I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.
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God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.
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A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” A very annoyed woman once said, “He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long.
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There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.
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Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.
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