1,304 Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn’t love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?

Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care.

If you want to keep your eye on Christ then you have to learn to SEE.

Being a good person doesn’t mean you fit the life of every person you meet.

Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women’s qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn’t like. She doesn’t blame people for not seeing what she doesn’t always see in herself.

You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn’t survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.

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.

You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else’s reality.

Love is stronger than fear.