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#1

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#2

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, attitude, beauty, beginnings, confidence, difference, different, future, insecure, insecurity, integrity, letting-go, moving-on, not-caring, personality, pride, proud, quality, self-acceptance, self-love, special, unique

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#3

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, crazy, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, hope, insanity, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish

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#4

“Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they become the worse type of person. Unfortunately, they end up hurting themselves in the long run. They don’t want to hurt other people. It is against their very nature. They want to make amends and undo the wrong they did. Their life is a wave of highs and lows. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings. They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated. This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others. However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing, and the ones that often become activists for the broken hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood. They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#5

“Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then he won’t two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation.”
― Shannon Alder

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#6

“You know your testimony is strong when your roots are so deep that other people’s storms will never knock you over.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#7

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: all-different, ancient-chinese-wisdom, beliefs, commandments, complicated-people, differences, diversity, flowers, fortune-cookie-advice, funny, gardening, ground-cover, guidelines, humor, life, messed-up-people, observations, observations-on-life, opinions, perspectives, religion, rules, speculations, truth, values, variations, viewing-things-different, way-of-life, wildflowers

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#8

“There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don’t win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break apart families. Sometimes you lose your career. Sometimes you lose your way of life. Sometimes you end up worse off than you were before. However, you walk away with a heart free from lies, regret and you have closure. Within time, you find yourself in a life that is far from the prison you once lived in. This type of freedom is the scariest road you will ever travel. However, it is the road God will never let you travel alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: choices, divorce, freedom, hell, inner-peace, lies, marriage, relationships, truth, turning-point

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#9

“ You Chose

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

You chose to give away your love.
You chose to have a broken heart.
You chose to give up.
You chose to hang on.

You chose to react.
You chose to feel insecure.
You chose to feel anger.
You chose to fight back.
You chose to have hope.

You chose to be naïve.
You chose to ignore your intuition.
You chose to ignore advice.
You chose to look the other way.
You chose to not listen.
You chose to be stuck in the past.

You chose your perspective.
You chose to blame.
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride.
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia.
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
You chose your consequences.

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#10

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#11

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: bruce-lee

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#12

“The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#13

“Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#14

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love

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#15

“You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#16

“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#17

“There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn’t sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. It goes against kindness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#18

“If you're going to love someone or something then don't be a slow leaking faucet----be a hurricane.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#19

“I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found purpose in the madness. When that day came, I didn’t allow other people to dictate how I should feel or act. I learned there was no shame in imperfection because history had shown being different had the power to change perspectives and eventually the world. This is when I realized that flaws had responsibility. This was the day that I learned I was truly BLESSED.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#20

“You are going to do some really stupid and mean things in the name of love. Don’t be so hard on yourself when things don’t turn out. You are a good person that loved deeply. Anybody worth having will know that hurting someone is not showing someone who you really are. You’re a sensitive person that showed the depth of your love, by the depth of your pain. Fairytale love will show you only one face. Real love will show you as many faces as it takes to get you to see how much that person really wanted you in their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#21

“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends, lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships, romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love

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#22

“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, boyfriends, cheaters, crisis, delusions, fake-christians, falling-apart, games, girlfriends, insanity, lies, men, mental-disorders, relationships, sisters, stalkers, wrong-diagnosis

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#23

“The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: dreamers, insecure, introspection, introverts, like-minded, love, overthinkers, romantics, sensitive, souls

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#24

“When your mind wants to bolt, but your heart hangs on, it is because you don’t know with absolute certainty what the truth is. When you waste so much time on something that you want to believe is true, you begin to overthink things. Eventually, something obvious becomes twisted into something absurd, which keeps us from believing a simpler answer. Over time, you believe your own lies and fantasies to shield yourself from hurt, when following what is logical would have been the quickest way to healing. It is through your own self-imposed delusions that you lose your perspective. The world then becomes different to you when in fact you are different. Why? Because your own ego gets in the way. Everyone wants to feel special. Everyone wants to have faith in others. Everyone wants to believe in fairytales, happy endings and have all bad interactions with others explained. It is easier to sit in denial with your delusions and pray God will intervene, not realizing he has. He gave you commonsense and intuition, but you didn’t like how it made you feel. This is what true mental illness really is: Following your gut instinct through hell because you want to prove you are right, either to yourself or others. You sacrifice choosing to do right, in order to avoid pain. However, you don't realize that you have been in pain for a really long time and believed this was how happiness felt.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#25

“The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity or accomplishments as resolution. You can’t escape what you will not deal with. The day you can stand in the room with someone and not be affected is the day you truly moved on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#26

“After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#27

“Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: connections, fight, friendship, love, soul-connection, spirituality, unrequited-love

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#28

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abused, beginnings, choices, compassion, cruelty, dignity, empowerment, endings, experiences, final-chapters, forgiveness, games, gossip, hurt, image, injustice, justice, lies, life-lessons, mocking, new-journeys, played-with, redemption, repentance, restoration, rumors, self-confidence, self-worth, truth

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#29

“Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#30

“If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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