Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “With humor and humility you can withstand anything.”

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402. “Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.”

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

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404. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, “I want to know why!”

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405. “If you want to keep your eye on Christ then you have to learn to SEE.”

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406. “The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth.”

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407. “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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408. “God doesn’t ordain stupidity.”

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409. “Impossible has always been a dare.”

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410. “The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.”

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411. “Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won’t bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.”

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412. “Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.”

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413. “What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.”

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414. “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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415. “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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416. “The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.”

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417. “When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn’t want to be in hell any more.”

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418. “It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.”

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419. “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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420. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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421. “You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.”

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422. “God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.”

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423. “Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.”

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

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425. “You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.”

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426. “Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.”

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427. “Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.”

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428. “Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.”

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429. “Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.”

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430. “Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.”

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431. “Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it’s weight.”

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432. “Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”

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433. “Quitters always believe the lies they tell themselves because delusion is easier to live with than the reality that they settled for an easier path.”

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434. “You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don’t also make it a need.”

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435. “Someone asked me, “Who hurt you so badly?” I replied, “my own expectations.”

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436. “When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.”

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437. “The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.”

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438. “When you heart knows it doesn’t belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.”

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439. “Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.”

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440. “Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.”

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441. “Your tears are never invisible – there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.”

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442. “The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy.”

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443. “Sometimes you can’t agree with people because you would both be wrong.”

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444. “What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.”

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445. “The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.”

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446. “There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.”

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447. “Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.”

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448. “Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn’t running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person’s approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.”

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

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450. “Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person’s history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.”

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