Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.”

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

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354. “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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355. “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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356. “Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.”

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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. “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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359. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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

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

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

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365. “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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366. “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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367. “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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368. “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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369. “Timing is only lack of enough emotions.”

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

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373. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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

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

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

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378. “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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379. “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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380. “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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381. “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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382. “Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.”

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383. “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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384. “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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385. “That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.”

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

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

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “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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391. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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

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

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

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396. “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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397. “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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398. “Addiction by any other name is love.”

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399. “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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400. “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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