Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

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.

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...

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...

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in or...

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

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.

Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

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

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

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...

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

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

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isn't togetherness that creates humane pare...

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.