Shannon L. Alder Quotes

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, sta...

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

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

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't i...

There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that Go...

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

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

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

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...

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.