Shannon L. Alder Quotes - Page 19

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

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.

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.

Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.

God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.