Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.”

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202. “God’s justice will always be found at the end of a pen.”

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203. “No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.”

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204. “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?”

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205. “You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

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206. “Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens – God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don’t possess. God won’t deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone equal. The only people that really matter in life are the people that can “see” your heart and rejoice with you.”

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207. “Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.”

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208. “Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”

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209. “Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”

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210. “Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.”

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211. “We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you.”

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212. “Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.”

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213. “Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.”

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214. “Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.”

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215. “If they truly loved you they won’t devalue you.”

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216. “The devil lives in the shadow of subtle things – those things people keep hidden from others. They reside in the lies they tell themselves, in order to justify their pain or fear. It is the slight, the dig, the silence and the unspoken truth that we minimize to a passive aggressive status, as if it were a lesser evil. Integrity is not subtle. It speaks loudly, so everyone can hear and be healed. It is something you will never have to search for because it is seen and felt.”

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217. “The number of chances you give someone doesn’t tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”

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218. “Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life’s happiness.”

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219. “Leave a legacy of love, not a legacy of fear.”

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220. “Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.”

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221. “The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.”

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

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223. “Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.”

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224. “Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your belief in what is fair, what is real, what is forgiveable, what is not and what type of person will you become today now that you know.”

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225. “A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.”

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226. “A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”

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227. “God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.”

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228. “When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”

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229. “We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.”

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230. “Your blessings lay beyond your fear.”

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231. “Sometimes you don’t need to be told the truth. You just need to understand the nature of fear and how it effects the people that interact with you. It is the fear of loss that tests a person’s faith, more than any other trajedy. Never let your heart become blind to people’s weaknesses. Because when they lose faith they are capable of anything.”

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232. “It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”

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233. “L I V E or E V I L – to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.”

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234. “I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.”

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235. “You can’t always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn’t use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.”

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236. “There are always a million words behind the silence.”

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237. “A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don’t hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.”

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238. “The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it.”

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239. “God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warrior’s for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.”

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240. “The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.”

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241. “Empowering Women 101 – A strong women knows that cheating isn’t a mistake; it’s a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.”

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242. “You can’t turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn’t be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.”

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243. “Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.”

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244. “You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room and still expect to see the light.”

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245. “We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.”

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246. “There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.”

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247. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn’t make her whole life purpose her man. She understands that he is her counter part to achieving whatever she is to accomplish on this earth with the blessings and talents God has given her. He is part of the plan, not the whole plan.”

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248. “Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They’re emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of this they use a multitude of games, in order to receive adoration. Sadly, they are the most ungodly of God’s creations because they don’t show remorse for their actions, take steps to make amends or have empathy for others. They are morally bankrupt.”

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249. “Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn’t love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?”

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250. “God doesn’t call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn’t teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!”

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