Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “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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453. “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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454. “Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.”

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455. “The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.”

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456. “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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457. “Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won’t bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.”

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458. “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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459. “What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.”

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460. “What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.”

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461. “Impossible has always been a dare.”

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462. “The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth.”

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463. “If you want to keep your eye on Christ then you have to learn to SEE.”

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

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465. “You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.”

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

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

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468. “Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.”

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

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470. “Quitters always believe the lies they tell themselves because delusion is easier to live with than the reality that they settled for an easier path.”

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

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

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474. “Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.”

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475. “Loyalty is what you focus on and won’t give up.”

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

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477. “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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478. “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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479. “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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480. “Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.”

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481. “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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482. “Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.”

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483. “If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.”

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

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485. “Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.”

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486. “You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.”

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487. “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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488. “The purpose of life is the lesson.”

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

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

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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. “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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493. “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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494. “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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495. “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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496. “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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497. “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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498. “What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.”

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499. “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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500. “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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