Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.”

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352. “Never believe someone cares for you because of other people’s reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune.”

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353. “Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.”

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

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

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358. “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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359. “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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360. “One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.”

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

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

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364. “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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365. “In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.”

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

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “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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370. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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371. “When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple.”

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372. “With humor and humility you can withstand anything.”

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

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

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

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377. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “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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382. “Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.”

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383. “Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that “selective” evilness is okay is mental illness.”

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”

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

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389. “Where loved ones failed you, guardian angels stand ready to catch your fall.”

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

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391. “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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392. “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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393. “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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394. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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

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

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398. “The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn’t be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn’t get the response you got.”

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

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400. “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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