Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.

You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don't is because my angels keep me standing up.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.

There is no end to the things you don't understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.