Shannon L. Alder Quotes

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.

Gratitude was never a noun; it's secretly a verb. It is not a place you accept defeat, settle in for broken dreams or call it the best life will get. Gratitude is getting out of laziness, self pity, d...

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that you...

What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your...

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusio...

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from bein...

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.