Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “The problem was never my mind; it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.”

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

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

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

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

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363. “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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364. “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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365. “Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”

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

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.”

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370. “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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371. “Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one’s affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?”

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372. “No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.”

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

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374. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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375. “Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!”

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376. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn’t being confident; it is called being a doormat.”

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377. “Prayer and staying positive is certainly a good start toward a happier a life, but it is not enough. The way out of Egypt requires packing up, moving on and wandering around until you find Canaan.”

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378. “You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, “Be still.” Yet, my heart’s blindness could only write in loud hues of red, “I love you.”

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379. “Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.”

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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. “Addiction by any other name is love.”

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382. “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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383. “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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384. “If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.”

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385. “Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.”

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386. “Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.”

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387. “I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.”

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388. “The question isn’t who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?”

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

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

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

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

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394. “Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.”

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

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397. “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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398. “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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399. “I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.”

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400. “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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