Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

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Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.

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Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

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No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

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Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

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Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

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What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

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Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.

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You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

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

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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.

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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.

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Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.

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In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

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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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Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

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Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

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

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There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritu...

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A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.

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It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly, It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

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