Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2025 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. “A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.”

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

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463. “The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.”

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464. “There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.”

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465. “God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won’t remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.”

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466. “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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467. “Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.”

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468. “Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn’t running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person’s approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.”

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

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.”

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “The only way through pain is love.”

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

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

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

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494. “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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495. “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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496. “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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497. “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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498. “If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.”

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499. “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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500. “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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