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#1

“Dignity
/ˈdignitē/ noun

1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache.

2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.

3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.

4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter.

5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.

6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it.

7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.

8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.

9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.

10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#2

“There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don’t win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break apart families. Sometimes you lose your career. Sometimes you lose your way of life. Sometimes you end up worse off than you were before. However, you walk away with a heart free from lies, regret and you have closure. Within time, you find yourself in a life that is far from the prison you once lived in. This type of freedom is the scariest road you will ever travel. However, it is the road God will never let you travel alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: choices, divorce, freedom, hell, inner-peace, lies, marriage, relationships, truth, turning-point

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#3

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: authors, books, choices, coauthors, craft, desire, hobbies, inspirational-writers, legacy, life-purpose, novels, publishers, romance-writers, stories, why-do-you-write, write, writers, writing, writing-craft, writing-industry

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#4

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

tags: action, choices, commonsense, dwelling, guidance, hyperfocus, inattention, lingering, listen, loss-of-focus, motivation, move-forward, move-on, perserverance, research, seeing, slave, take-action, vigilance, wrong-spiritual-advice

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#5

“I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, dogma, religion, self-righteous, stubborn

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#6

“I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: choices, conservationism, decisions, fearless, follow-signs, follow-your-heart, god-fearing, joan-of-arc, joy, leap-of-fatih, life-missions, life-purpose, marine-life, promptings, search-and-rescue, service, signs, trust, truth, warrior

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#7

“When you are near the middle of your life, often God will do outrageous things to knock you back on course.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: following-the-spirit, life-missions, promptings, signs, whispers

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#8

“You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#9

“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?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love

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#10

“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: answers, anxiety, aquaintances, benefit-of-the-doubt, bias, brainwashed, brothers, children, choices, christianity, christmas-spirit, church-members, communication, compassion, dating, delusions, empathy, eternal-truths, exfamily, family, family-members, fathers, fear, first-impressions, forgiving-family, forgiving-friends, forgiving-sisters, friends, holy-ghost, homeless, jesus-christ, knowing-someone, listen, listening, love, mental-disorders, mental-illness, mothers, new-perspective, new-year, not-seeing, persepctive, promptings, questions, reaching-out, relationships, relgion, resolutions, seeing, seekers, seeking, self-righteousness, sermons, sisters, spirtual, strangers, wrong-impresssions

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#11

“The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity or accomplishments as resolution. You can’t escape what you will not deal with. The day you can stand in the room with someone and not be affected is the day you truly moved on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#12

“When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: connections, future, god-s-plan, growth, hope, judgement, judging, life-mission, life-purpose, links, nondisclosure, personalities, personality, possibilities, speculation, vision

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#13

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: absurd, absurdity, authors, best-plot-ever, betrayal, books, comedy, craft, crazy, dreamers, funnier-than-hell, funny, humor, insanity, novels, romance-authors, romantic-comedy, screenplays, stupid-women, television, unbelievable, weirdness, writing

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#14

“Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: destiny, hurt-feelings, life-missions, life-purpose, pain, sorrow

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#15

“The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: dreamers, insecure, introspection, introverts, like-minded, love, overthinkers, romantics, sensitive, souls

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#16

“If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, causes, character, interests, judgement, passionate, personality, reputation, soul, true-self, viewpoint

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#17

“Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they become the worse type of person. Unfortunately, they end up hurting themselves in the long run. They don’t want to hurt other people. It is against their very nature. They want to make amends and undo the wrong they did. Their life is a wave of highs and lows. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings. They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated. This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others. However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing, and the ones that often become activists for the broken hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood. They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#18

“When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: blessings, confidence, skills, talents

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#19

“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: achievements, achievments, beginnings, empowerment, endings, future, goals, god-s-plan, graduation-speech, success, wisdom

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#20

“God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: achievement, adversity, battles, come-full-circle-in-life, life-challenges, life-missions, life-purpose, motivational, overcoming, restoration, rise-above-your-weakness, sinners, spirituality, success, testimony, triumph

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#21

“A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: arguments, christian-woman, courage, faith, fear, following-the-spirit, integrity, love, promptings, religious, spiritual, spiritual-woman, strong-woman, warriors, wisdom, woman-of-faith

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#22

“God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: compassion, connections, destinations, difficult-roads, empathy, explorers, forgiveness, helping-others, imperfect-people, imperfection, inspiration, journeys, leaders, life-experiences, life-missions, life-purpose, love-for-one-another, mistakes, misunderstanding, paths, perfect-people-don-t-exist, respect, similar, thoughtfulness, trails, trials, understanding

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#23

“If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: accountable, bravery, choices, courage, determination, fearless, love, ownership, pray, prayer, responsibility, stewardship, strength

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#24

“Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: admit-your-wrong, apologize, be-real, bear-testimony, career-change, communication, courage, divorce, divorcing, fear, honesty, life-changes, marriage, reach-out, tell-truth

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#25

“People will tell you that you’re broken. Don’t believe them. They were not the person that could help you. They have not walked your path. God has got a plan to bring people into your life that have lived through a similar hell. In the end, it isn’t the number of people that are on your side. It is the people that understand what your side is that matters.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: answers, broken, faith, guardian-angel, have-faith, hell-to-well, hope, love, mental-disorders, pray, prayer, stay-strong, strength, trust

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#26

“Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, choices, comfort, commonsense, confusion, decisions, direction, disappointment, divorce, fear, feeling, feeling-the-spirit, found, freedom, full-potential, giving-up, goals, god, god-s-gift, god-s-plan, guardian-angel, healing, hearing, holy-ghost, inaction, knowing, legacy, life-missions, listening, living, lost, marriage, messages, passions, path, potential, prayer, promptings, relationships, satan, scared, seeing, self-propelled, sense, settling, stayingpositiveu-com, understanding, vision

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#27

“God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: awareness, beginnings, choices, courage, decisions, discernment, dying, ends, fear, feelings, freedom, future, god-s-plan, growth, heart, holy-ghost, knowing, living, mind, obsession, perspective, prayers, searching, stayingpositiveu-com, stories, thoughts, trust, truth, understanding, unknown, vision, whispers

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#28

“As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.”
― shannon l. alder

tags: asleep, chances, dishonorable, foolish, games, god-s-plan, guardian-angel, hurtful, naive, seriously, sneaky, sorrow, ungrateful

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#29

“God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: action, beginnings, belief, dreams, faith, friendship, future, god-s-plans, grace, guardian-angels, home, love, no-coincidences, novels, plans, staying-positive, stories, unity, warriors

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#30

“Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world--- if you only believe.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: believe, conflict, friendship, guardian-angels, love, miracles, peace, relationships, trust

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