Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you...

No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.

Design a life! Don't maintain it.

You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done to you. When you begin to minimize it, second guess yourself and others, ignore it or even pretend it...

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...

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.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

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...

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.

Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to g...

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.