Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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452. “You really won’t know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you’re both playing the same game.”

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453. “It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.”

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454. “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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455. “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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456. “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.”

— Shannon L. Alder

457. “Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.”

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

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459. “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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460. “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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461. “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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462. “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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463. “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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464. “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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465. “Impossible has always been a dare.”

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

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467. “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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468. “If he loves you he will meet your effort.”

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

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

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

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

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

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474. “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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475. “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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476. “Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”

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

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

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

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480. “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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481. “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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482. “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.”

— Shannon L. Alder

483. “Make choices in life that don’t leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn’t include God in the decision making process.”

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484. “Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.”

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

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

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

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

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489. “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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490. “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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491. “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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492. “The purpose of life is the lesson.”

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

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

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495. “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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496. “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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497. “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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498. “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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499. “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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500. “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.”

— Shannon L. Alder