Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Reality was once a dream that took flight.”

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302. “It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only “you” must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, “I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.”

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303. “Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won’t be a repeat of your past.”

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304. “Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.”

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305. “The people meant to be in your life will look inside, not just stare at the pretty bow on the box.”

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306. “Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.”

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307. “The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn’t consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.”

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308. “People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.”

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309. “If you want to heal your heart surround yourself with people that won’t tell you hating other people is how you get over being hurt. Surround yourself with people that will tell you to be more like Christ and reach out to those you don’t understand or are offended by. Bitter insecure and anxious people will tell you everything you need to hear to help you move on, but very little of it will be the true teachings of Christ.”

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310. “What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.”

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311. “Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn’t want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.”

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312. “Timing is only lack of enough emotions.”

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313. “Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”

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314. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”

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315. “Gratitude was never a noun; it’s secretly a verb. It is not a place you accept defeat, settle in for broken dreams or call it the best life will get. Gratitude is getting out of laziness, self pity, denial and insecurity, in order to walk through that door God has been holding open for you this entire time.”

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316. “Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won’t be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.”

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317. “There really is nothing normal about being in love with someone. It’s a million emotions with a million excuses.”

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318. “Empowered Women 101: A man doesn’t have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, why would you teach him to be less than Christlike, in order to show his devotion? Real women don’t need the people in their life to lower others, in order to raise them up.”

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319. “You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.”

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320. “It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.”

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321. “Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people – the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.”

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322. “If someone is not spiritually present during a time when you need their help, then how will their physical presence make a difference?”

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323. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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324. “God doesn’t hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.”

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325. “A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.”

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326. “When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.”

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327. “Don’t talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.”

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328. “This world is not here for you; you are here for it.”

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329. “My love has no boundaries and is bound by no rules, except one: Love all of me and I will love all of you.”

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330. “Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.”

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331. “Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.”

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332. “I am totally convinced my guardian angel is an addict because I can’t find my Adderall and she is not talking.”

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333. “If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.”

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334. “Have you ever thought that the battle you are in was never a lesson, but a test? Will you choose your comfort, ego and feelings or will you choose to prove your love of Christ by humbling your heart and seeing that the solution was always the one thing hardest for you to do – giving instead of receiving?”

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335. “Gratitude can’t grow love higher than regret.”

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336. “When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.”

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337. “True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.”

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338. “Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people’s silence.”

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339. “Life is always a series of encounters that demand you prove your love.”

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340. “It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn’t. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn’t you know?”

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341. “The problem was never my mind; it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.”

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342. “Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way.”

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343. “You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn’t survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.”

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344. “Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.”

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345. “The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.”

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346. “Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?”

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347. “Your mind is the voice for your heart.”

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348. “Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on.”

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349. “You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.”

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350. “She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.”

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