"God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know ..."
- Shannon L. Alder
"You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you."
"You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks ..."
"They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required em..."
"Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hund..."
"Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when the..."
"Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?"
"It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault ..."
"If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence."
"Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world."