Shannon L. Alder Quotes - Page 3

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.
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One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this.
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As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.
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No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.
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Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.
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God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.
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The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.
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Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
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In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
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Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important.
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Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.
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You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.
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The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.
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You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
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God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!
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The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
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The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.
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Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
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You can't have the rainbow without the storm.
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Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.
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Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
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God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles.
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The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.
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Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women's qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn't like. She doesn't blame people for not seeing what she doesn't always see in herself.
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True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.
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True love is not:A person’s looksA person’s career or accomplishmentsLongevity of a relationshipChildren together Memories madeWords spoken or declaredChance meetings you feel are fateHobbies and interests sharedOr, Religious beliefs in commonTrue love is:Seeing the potential in someone and helping them to rise and meet it. It is selfless. It doesn’t care about being right or winning. It cares about you choosing right. It is your heart breaking when they go against the goodness in their nature and it is your heart rejoicing when he or she does something so generous and kind for others, that it inspires you to be even better. It is confidence that doesn’t seek to possess, rather to set your soul free.
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Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.
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The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.
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True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.
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Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.
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It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.
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People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
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The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
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What I find predictable is crazy people's ability to predict that unpredictable people can be predicted by their consistent unpredictable behavior, thus making all crazy people predictable when the world says they are unpredictable. Therefore, I must be “right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.
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The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.
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If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.
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Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don't have options that make them stay comfortable. You won't grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.
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Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.
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Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
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Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.
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The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?
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Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.
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The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
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Empowered Women 101: A confident woman takes him for exactly who he is, not who she wants him to be. He is who he is, take it or leave it before you get married. This is the ground level of your partner. Together you can grow from here. However, if you are still teaching basic kindergarten values such as kindness, compassion, respect or honesty then you shouldn't complain if your ground level has a basement.
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Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.
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Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
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Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!
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Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.
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I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.
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Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.
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You can spend the rest of your life fighting to be respected, accepted and understood by the people you have created a life with or you can start living a life where that isn't a daily goal and ambition in your relationship.
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It is not the self respect and pride that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind to your children that matters. A strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. Those blessed with a patriotic genetic legacy should run to the top of the mountain and roar with all fervency, “If they can over come, so will I!” When you know the ghosts that stand in support of you, you can begin to see life as they did—a life of joy, possibilities and freedom.
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A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.
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Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.
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Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.
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The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.
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Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.
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The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.
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See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.
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Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.
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