Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.”

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

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355. “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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356. “Some women don’t care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.”

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357. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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

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360. “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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361. “Courage can’t exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.”

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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “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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366. “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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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. “Timing is only lack of enough emotions.”

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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. “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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371. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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

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373. “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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374. “With humor and humility you can withstand anything.”

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

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

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377. “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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378. “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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379. “Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”

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

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

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382. “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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383. “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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384. “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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385. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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386. “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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387. “The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.”

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

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

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390. “You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.”

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391. “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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392. “Addiction by any other name is love.”

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393. “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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394. “Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.”

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

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

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

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398. “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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399. “Silence by any other name is called shame.”

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400. “God doesn’t ordain stupidity.”

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