Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

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

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of com...

If you chase anything in life chase the things that get you excited about living. Chase the things that give you hope, happiness and a glimpse of a better life. Chase the things that make you want to...

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation o...

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest...

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing wh...

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame i...

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.