Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

It really is quite simple. All women really want is to be needed, valued and loved above anyone else and they will make you a keeper. It's your actions she is paying attention to, not your words.

Chasing a person doesn't give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

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.

Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don't want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man's love to provide you with value.

A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.