Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “Leave a legacy of love, not a legacy of fear.”

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

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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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. “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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222. “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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223. “Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “There are always a million words behind the silence.”

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227. “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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228. “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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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. “Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.”

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

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234. “It doesn’t matter how much you have in common with someone, how much you could help them spiritually grow, or even how much you love them. If you can’t help feed their most important need then you will always be pouring water into a well that can’t stay full on its own.”

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235. “The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.”

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236. “Your enemies don’t have a chance when your spirit knows how to run, swim and fly beyond the evil they carry within them.”

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237. “The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.”

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238. “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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239. “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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240. “Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.”

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241. “There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn’t represent peace in your heart.”

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242. “Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!”

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243. “Having dignity doesn’t require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won’t allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation.”

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

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246. “Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.”

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247. “When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?”

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248. “You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief – acceptance.”

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249. “Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don’t realize the lens is dirty.”

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250. “Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person’s affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn’t fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?”

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