Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it’s weight.”

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452. “Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”

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453. “When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.”

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454. “You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don’t also make it a need.”

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455. “Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.”

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456. “The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.”

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457. “Your tears are never invisible – there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.”

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458. “The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy.”

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459. “If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.”

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460. “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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461. “Sometimes you can’t agree with people because you would both be wrong.”

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462. “Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good.”

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463. “Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.”

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464. “People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situations. In reality, they fool themselves into believing they are healed, until that lie is corrected by time, further information or their own personal growth. True healing comes when we learn to not avoid truth, but face it. Only then will we be set free.”

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465. “In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.”

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466. “Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true.”

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467. “Some people look for the obvious and make decisions based on that. However, sensitive people look for the subtle things in life. They observe what is missed, overlooked and rarely observed by others. They dwell at a deeper level of perception that clings to signs, body language and what is left unspoken. They are observers that will trust their instinct first over any fact or well delivered speech.”

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468. “Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.”

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469. “The purpose of life is the lesson.”

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470. “You knew... and that is why it hurts so bad.”

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471. “If he loves you he will meet your effort.”

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472. “Stressed by any other name is fear.”

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473. “When you understand what love is you will understand that mercy and forgiveness feels better than any form of revenge.”

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474. “The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.”

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475. “They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.”

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476. “An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response.”

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477. “Love is so many things, but it is not safe.”

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478. “You are loved deeper than any ocean. Let your mind swim through it’s depth because I will never let you drown.”

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479. “Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.”

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480. “Control doesn’t validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.”

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481. “There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.”

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482. “You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.”

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483. “Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters.”

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484. “Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.”

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485. “If you want to be a good parent then be a great leader. You should live a life with passion for someone and something. The legacy you leave your children shouldn’t be how you suffered in gratitude for a life you had no passion for. Rather, it should be how grateful you are to a God that believes fairytales can come true because they came true for you.”

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486. “The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.”

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487. “Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.”

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488. “Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn’t on your terms.”

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489. “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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490. “The only way through pain is love.”

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491. “Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.”

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492. “Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.”

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493. “A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.”

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494. “You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.”

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495. “There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know.”

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496. “We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.”

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497. “When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second person did not fulfill you either. At this point, you have to choose the third person because God is getting a little tired of your inattention and indecisiveness, and is planning on sending a fourth person into your life just to slap you around with the bible for not entering the promised land.”

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498. “You don’t go to church to find God; you bring him with you – attitude.”

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499. “When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.”

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500. “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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