Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

Money isnt the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

If you want to be happy you have to study people who are happy. You have to hang out with people that are happy. Life wont go in the direction you want, by simply trying to stay positive in a life youre not happy with. You have to know what you want and why you truly want it so badly. When you figure that out then you need to change your current identity, in order to fit the type of person you envision would make those dreams come true. Happiness is not reliant on the actions or inactions of other people. It is your “courage in motion” toward your dreams.

God doesnt hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

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

Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.

Dont look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a persons soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

The people that truly love us in life dont fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they dont want the accountability of starting it.

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Courage is Gods way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

Always do good for others because when people try to drag your name through the mud, God will always bring a storm to wash it away.

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you can break down the walls of pride by accepting vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness. As you walk through your vulnerability, you will meet humility on the way to courage. From here, courage allows us to let go of shame and rise higher into the person we are meant to be, not the person that needs to be right. This is the road to confidence and self worth.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.