1,304 Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

The only people that can’t handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

God whispered, “You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn’t you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

Sometimes God doesn’t deny, he delays.

When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don’t also make it a need.

The number of chances you give someone doesn’t tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.

Don’t ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.

Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.