Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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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352. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?”

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

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355. “The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.”

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

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357. “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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358. “You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.”

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

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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365. “That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.”

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366. “Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”

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367. “Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women’s qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn’t like. She doesn’t blame people for not seeing what she doesn’t always see in herself.”

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368. “I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn’t allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.”

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369. “Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.”

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370. “Silence by any other name is called shame.”

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371. “A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.”

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

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373. “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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374. “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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375. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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

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377. “Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.”

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378. “There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most.”

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

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380. “Addiction by any other name is love.”

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381. “I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”

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382. “Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!”

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383. “But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someone’s actions, which leads to this question: Why is this person’s respect so important to you?”

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

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385. “Grief is just love with no place to go.”

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386. “If they keep coming back to you, it isn’t love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.”

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

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388. “If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.”

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389. “When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”

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

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391. “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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392. “When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave – knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.”

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

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

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395. “How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.”

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396. “Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.”

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397. “Arrange your life in such a way that you don’t make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.”

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398. “I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.”

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399. “You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world; It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.”

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400. “Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.”

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