Shannon L. Alder

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It__ creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

God is the creator of all good plot twists!

Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen.

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, __ have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don__ have. It really isn__ about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.

If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.