Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.

And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple.

Courage doesn't happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

Commitment is the foundation of focus.

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.

Life doesn't happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone's story.

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

A goal will always tell you where you don't want to be.