Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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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452. “Control doesn’t validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.”

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

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454. “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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455. “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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456. “Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.”

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457. “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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458. “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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459. “Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.”

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460. “Someone asked me, “Who hurt you so badly?” I replied, “my own expectations.”

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461. “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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462. “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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463. “The only way through pain is love.”

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.”

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

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

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

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471. “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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472. “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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473. “Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.”

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474. “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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475. “I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.”

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476. “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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477. “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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478. “A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.”

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

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

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481. “You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.”

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

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

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

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

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487. “Sometimes God doesn’t deny, he delays.”

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

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489. “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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490. “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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491. “The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.”

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492. “Act with God’s compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.”

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493. “What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.”

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494. “The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.”

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495. “Forgiveness happens when you stop wishing for someone else to become what you want them to be.”

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496. “So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.”

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497. “We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.”

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498. “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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499. “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.”

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500. “God’s plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!”

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