Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

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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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So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their re...

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The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not other people that keep you trapped; it is the entitle...

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Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

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You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you...

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You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

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Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.

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People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

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Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

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Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

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If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you can learn to communicate. If you can communicate, then you can begin to verbali...

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Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

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When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. I...

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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

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A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

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Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

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Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

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People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

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True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

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After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it.

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I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found purpose in the madness. When that d...

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