Shannon L. Alder Quotes
Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.
When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.
Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.
People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.
Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.
The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.
Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.
You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.
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.
Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.
Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.
You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.
God is always willing to give you the best life possible. If you change your mind at any time you are free to go back to enjoying hell.
The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart.
Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.
Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
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The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.
When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?
The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away.
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.