The only healthy marriages that survive are the ones where two people became best friends and learned how to rescue one another, over and over again.


Shannon L. Alder

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
here we were again , always saying good-bye
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and...
BILL FLORES
The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and chang...
MICHELLE CASTO
One of the reasons that I chose the 'Cantata' is its delightful and is not heard very often. There a...
JANE IVERSON
It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the ...
PAUL ROBESON
I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over a...
BETH ORTON
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose every...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
The more I learned, the more I became broadly talented, and that worked to my advantage over time.
CANDACE COMBS
The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over aga...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
We go to 20 cities across America and people show up from all over. We never know where the people a...
JEFF BOGGS
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
People tend to use just one finger over and over again and it's that repetitive use with one digit t...
STACEY DOYON
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - dire...
YO-YO MA
Even if you are doing the same thing over and over again, make sure you are doing it with another di...
OLASOT
All the created beings are contaminated by emotional attachment; they die and are reborn, only to di...
ATHARVA VEDA
That's one of the best bits about it. You get to travel all over the place, and you make friends fro...
LAURA WILSON
Anything done in excess becomes hazardous, not only to the entity, but also to a personage; in that ...
TINMASUN
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clea...
JUSTIN CRONIN
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School a...
WILLIAM GLASSER
Tiger has been the best player, and he's proven it over and over again.
VIJAY SINGH
I hear people in the hallways competing with one another over how many wings they are going to eat a...
AUSTIN WEINERMAN
And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the o...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA
The best place to live is that one where your friends are.
DANIEL MELGAçO
But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the ...
CLIFFORD ODETS
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was ne...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When...
EDWARD UGEL
It's an abuse that occurs over and over again. These consultants are selling promises they can't kee...
GARY COHEN
I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the re...
ALAN COX
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there....
BRENE BROWN
I've learned that people are always, more important than things, and your best friends in life are t...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones. A...
DANIEL HANDLER
I was one of seven children, and that is where we all learned to swim and became competitive swimmer...
DOLORES DAVIS
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my t...
VANESSA HUDGENS
It's one thing to bring in friends, people you are close to who are qualified for the job. It's anot...
LARRY NOBLE
There may be some trees that are perfectly healthy where you might be able to just ramp on over (the...
BUTCH SEIDLE
The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they t...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the v...
INUIT SONG
Give people the benefit of the doubt, over and over again, and do the same for yourself. Believe tha...
LIZ NEWMAN
There aren't twelve types of people in the universe--there are two... The ones that stand still and ...
ROMINA RUSSELL
Hillary Clinton has made it clear over and over again that we are at our best when we lift people up...
JOEL BENENSON
Two went over. Only one remained calm.
JACQUELINE MITCHELL
I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I ...
ANN PATCHETT
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It ...
GABOUREY SIDIBE
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
EUGENE O'NEILL
One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, a...
RAE CARSON
The rescue operation is over.
KRZYSZTOF MEJER
Over the years, we have learned that the home inspection business is more than just looking for crac...
FRANK COOK
I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impres...
ALAN LADD
I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it o...
TARAN KILLAM
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
MURIEL SPARK
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the ...
JAMES L. FISHER
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest b...
BONNIE RAITT
And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist a...
RICHARD BODE
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only peop...
PREET BHARARA
There's a visceral, emotional something in the music. People return to it over and over again.
STEPHEN BROWER
Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines....
ADAM BALDWIN
I have four other ones at home and this morning, I said, 'Girls, move over. I'm coming home with ano...
DORIS ROBERTS
The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan ...
SHILPA SHETTY
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style ...
EMMYLOU HARRIS
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is
ALLY CONDIE
Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over an...
JUDD ANDERSON
The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and resc...
A. ASHLEY STRAKER
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for bus...
BARRY DILLER
Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in o...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
The trend is still for healthy productivity growth between 2% and 2.5%, and unit labor costs are exp...
DANIEL JESTER
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose...
JESSE OWENS
I know that Shannon (Miller) has mentioned that it's a good draw. It makes sense. We're the ones who...
PAUL FLANAGAN
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. Y...
HENRY V. O'NEIL
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You get to know people on a different level - beyond that of saying 'Hello, how are you?' at church ...
BARB VANDERLEEST
I've learned that some of the greatest gifts that God gives you, are your talents, You share with fr...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
We need to use the cover that's already here to protect the seedlings. Eventually the ones that surv...
JOE ENGBECK
I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the twee...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and...
JANE GOODALL
Me and Paul (Davis) and Shannon (Brown) have to play at another whole different level to where we ca...
MAURICE AGER
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never goi...
ANNE LAMOTT
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
ANDREW LO
I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my...
JOE ARPAIO
Mr. McMurphy... my friend... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there...
KEN KESEY
Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I'm not terribly happy with the quality of current films. It's too much business, not enough quality...
STUART ALLARD
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless mill...
EDWIN WAY TEALE
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless mill...
EDWIN WAY TEALE
If there was discontent before and the holidays are another opportunity to face one another across t...
SHARYN SOOHO
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

More Shannon L. Alder

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return a...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard bec...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or an...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. Howeve...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk h...
SHANNON L. ALDER
What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your oppo...
SHANNON L. ALDER
And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my d...
SHANNON L. ALDER
An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am inse...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in ever...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is know...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be hum...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.
SHANNON L. ALDER
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being you...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’r...
SHANNON L. ALDER
They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a f...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another st...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stori...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simp...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.
SHANNON L. ALDER
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is noth...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion a...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfil...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
SHANNON L. ALDER
I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Dear Child,

Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are i...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get p...
SHANNON L. ALDER
There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your acco...
SHANNON L. ALDER
My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.
SHANNON L. ALDER
I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I c...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.
SHANNON L. ALDER
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why e...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words the...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you fore...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or futu...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "W...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child underst...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in wa...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something y...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
SHANNON L. ALDER
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things ab...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying go...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them....
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
SHANNON L. ALDER
I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
SHANNON L. ALDER
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionall...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing mor...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded cipher...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answer...
SHANNON L. ALDER
True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we s...
SHANNON L. ALDER
There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words c...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, y...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes li...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will hav...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on h...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point the...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each p...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of j...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Realize that narcissists have an addiction disorder. They are strongly addicted to feeling significa...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Empowered Women 101: Only an insecure woman with control issues will look outside her relationship a...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
SHANNON L. ALDER
People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their ta...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
SHANNON L. ALDER
People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun

1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Narcissistic Supply

You get discarded as supply for one of two reason: They find you too ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Narcissists will never tell you the truth. They live with the fear of abandonment and can't deal wit...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their fr...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto ho...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will liv...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear i...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because G...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you l...
SHANNON L. ALDER
He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on h...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than plan...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is not the monsters we should be afraid of; it is the people that don't recognize the same monste...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found th...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be th...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or signifi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of the...
SHANNON L. ALDER
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of other...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisp...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from l...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by some...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of realit...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?
SHANNON L. ALDER
There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and ac...
SHANNON L. ALDER
See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma o...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a...
SHANNON L. ALDER
True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they rema...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, wi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder o...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the dark...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid...
SHANNON L. ALDER
No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that firs...
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one per...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured b...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
SHANNON L. ALDER
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the qu...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they rea...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neith...
SHANNON L. ALDER
People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them a...
SHANNON L. ALDER
victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\

1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
SHANNON L. ALDER
The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his c...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience th...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you fin...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-e...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The only person that should wear your ring is the one person that would never…

1...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
SHANNON L. ALDER
It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When I was a child, an angel came to say,
A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder t...
SHANNON L. ALDER
One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many pe...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
SHANNON L. ALDER
You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
SHANNON L. ALDER
If he emotionally cheated on you remember this before you take him back. It was a choice to do it an...
SHANNON L. ALDER
The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling the...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading the...
SHANNON L. ALDER
I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually,...
SHANNON L. ALDER