Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

God doesn't put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Love is so many things, but it is not safe.

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

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

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.

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

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

When what you value and dream about doesn't match the life you are living, you have pain.

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

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.

The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.