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“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The voice of reason is lost in the envious echoes of hearts torn by battle. The song of our children echo the misfortune of their parent's haze---we all started out small and had dreams to become something more than what we were.”

“When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.”

“The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.”

Action Choices Living Adversity Goals Planning Not Giving Up Plan Perserverance Planner Doing It

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.”

“You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.”

Choices Peace Change Spiritual Paths

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“Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.”

Life Choices Regret Openness Freedom Of Speech Experiences

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“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”

“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!”

“Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.”

“Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!”

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”

“Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.”

Religion Faith Choices Destiny Doubt Fate Possibility Uncertainty Questioning Uncertain Beliefs Searching Eternal Truths Wondering What If

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“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”

Life Success Motivation Choices Plans Dreams Living Goals Procrastination Comfort Zone Life Purpose Talents Accomplishments Big Dreams Chances Striving

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“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.”

“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”

“It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn’t last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live.”

Love Pain Choices Fear Relationships Friendship Marriage Knowing Sorrow Future Letting Go Shame Guilt Divorce Ties Battles God S Plan Beginnings Guardian Angel Living A Lie

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“It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only “you” must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, “I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.”

Love Choices Relationships Freedom Silence Compassion Kindness Friends Letting Go Confusion Decisions Follow Your Heart Holy Ghost Lingering Mixed Signals God S Voice Mixed Messages Freeing People

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“Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”

“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write to be seen and heard. I write to be near those I love. I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear. I write past the embarrassment of exposure. I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares. I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings. I write to remember. I write knowing conversations don’t always take place. I write because speaking can’t be reread. I write to sooth a mind that races. I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand. I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide. I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long. I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be. I write to provide a legacy. I write to make sense out of senselessness. I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers. I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories. I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.”

“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.”

Heart Motivation Choices Music Emotions Inspired Words Writers Lyrics Songs Crossroads Dreamers Thinkers Directions Overthinkers

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“You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.”

“Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a sign, rather than face the pain of the choices we should or shouldn’t have made. Real healing won’t begin until we stop saying, “God prevented this or that.” Often in our attempt to protect ourselves from pain, we leave things to fate and don’t take chances. Or, we don’t work hard enough to keep the blessings we are given. Maybe, we didn't recognize a blessing, until it was too late. Often, it is the lies we tell ourselves that keeps us stuck in a delusion of not being responsible for our lives. We leave it all up to God. The truth is we are not leaves blowing toward our destiny without any control. To believe this is to take away our freedom of choice and that of others. The final stage of grief is acceptance. This can’t be reached through always believing God willed the outcomes in our lives, despite our inaction or actions. To think so is to take the easy escape from our accountability. Sometimes, God has nothing to do with it. Sometimes, we just screwed up and guarded our heart from accepting it, by putting our outcome on God as the reason it turned out the way it did. Faith is a beautiful thing, but without work we can give into a mysticism of destiny that really doesn't teach us lessons or consequences for our actions. Life then becomes a distorted delusion of no accountability with God always to blame for battles we walked away from, won or loss.”

“Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.”

Truth Choices Circumstances Mistakes Decisions Thankful Truthfulness Ungrateful Crossroads Lack Of Faith Guilt Trips Gratituide

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

“It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?”

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.”

“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.”

“The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.”

“Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.”

“Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.”

Choices Destiny Fate Rewards Mistakes Providence Screw Ups Perserverance Wrong Choices Unexpected Blessings

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“When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain.”

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.”

“All roads out of hell lead home.”

“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”

“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”

“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 give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”

“Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.”

Love Feelings Choices Fear Plans Relationship Dreams Dying Anxiety Living Longing Misery Goals Decisions Career Goal Setting Not Living

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference.”

Choices Peace Freedom Answers Kindness Communication Integrity Conflict Caring Honorable Sermons Closure Guardian Angel Ignoring Do The Right Thing Christlike Barnabas Intentionally Hurting Someone

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“The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.”

“It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.”

“Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.”

Choices Strength Events Integrity Future Injustice Activism Preparation Social Change Life Purpose Novels Case Life Mission True Stories

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“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 delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.”

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.”

“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”

Choices Fear Self Esteem Acceptance Anxiety Denial Settling Insecurity Conformity Apathy Laziness Self Belief Acceptance Of Oneself Wrong Choices Self Denial Locus Of Control False Security Collective Order

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.”

Humanity Choices Compassion Integrity Living Caring Fearless Apathy Fearful Choose The Right Christlike Being A Man Attiude Standing For What It Right

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“Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.”

Life Choices Freedom Lessons Decisions Apathy Repetition Enslavement

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