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#1

“Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: actions, brothers, elasped-time, inaction, omission, reality

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#2

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.

First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.

Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: fantasy, psychology

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#3

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertiveness, authenticity, being-yourself, brainwashed, confidence, courage, differing-perspectives, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, independence, individualism, peer-pressure, personalities, perspectives, reality, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-out, stayingpositiveu-com, unique

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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

“It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, anxiety, bravery, character, choices, confidence, faith, fear, finding-yourself, friendship, loneliness, lonely, lonliness, on-your-own, relationships, relationships-101, standing-alone, stayingpostiveu-com

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#6

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise

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#7

“Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: break-ups, clarity, courtship, dating, dating-101, dating-tips, discernment, fiance, finding-a-spouse, knowing-vs-guessing, longevity, prayers, relatinships-101, relationship, seeking, selective, stayingpositiveu-com, the-one

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#8

“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: dark, truth

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#9

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: fear, philosophy

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#10

“The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: breakups, choices, commonsense, confidence, courage, daughters, doormat, empowering-women, family-support, girls, inner-wisdom, loving-families, marriage, men, raising-girls, relationships-101, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-respect, single-woman, stayingpositiveu-com, true-beauty, women, women-empowerment, worth

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#11

“And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.”
― shannon l. alder

tags: beauty, dark, destiny, fact, fantasy, fate, heart, life, light, love, mind, moon, no-coincidences, predestined, purpose, reality, relationships, rumi, somewhere-inbetween, stars, sunrise, sunset, synergy, timing, truth, yin-yang

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#12

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#13

“You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: careers, choices, commensense, decisions, desires, drive, empowering-women, goals, needs, people, relationships-101, temptations, wants, wealth

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#14

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
― Haruki Murakami

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#15

“The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: confidence, freedom, freedom-of-judgement, freedom-of-opinion, lessons-learned-in-life, self-assurance, self-esteem-101, stayingpositiveu-com

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#16

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

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#17

“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 or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: being-different, best-friends, betrayal, career, caring, caring-too-much, choices, creativity, decisions, dreaming, dreams, foolish, friends, gifts, growth, husbands, lessons-learned, life, life-purpose, love, loyalty, marriage, mistakes, pins, pinterest, relationships, responsibility, self-improvement, stupidity, true-love, tsloama, unrequited-love, wives

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#18

“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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#19

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#20

“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: activists, against-bias, artists, compassion, counselors, creatives, divergent, diversity, dreamers, empaths, equality, feeling-deeply, infj, life-coach, musicians, nurturers, rescuers, sar, survivors, therapists, warriors, wounded, writers

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#21

“Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angel, best-friends, dory, friendship, guardian-angel, heart-of-gold, love, quality-friends, search-and-rescue

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#22

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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#23

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#24

“When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: allies, church-members, collaboration, connections, coworkers, ensuring-the-future, family, friends, friendships, kids, love, networking, projects, relationships, spouse, strangers

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#25

“Dignity
/ˈdignitē/ noun

1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache.

2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.

3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.

4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter.

5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.

6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it.

7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.

8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.

9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.

10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#26

“Don’t ignore pain; appreciate its message: You need to change now!”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-happy, change, change-your-beliefs, change-your-goals, change-your-life, change-your-mind, change-your-outlook, change-your-perception, change-yourself, follow-your-heart, live-your-dreams, love-one-another, make-goals, make-plans, never-give-up, never-give-up-on-anyone, never-give-up-on-yourself, pain, peace-is-found-in-change, stay-focused, stay-positive

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#27

“In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: dreams, goals, god, knowing, love, plans, purpose, talents, wind

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#28

“It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: affect, agressive, bad-perception, bad-situations, change, come, competition, don-t-fight, don-t-pursue, dreams, ego, emotions, fight, freedom, go, good-perception, good-situations, growth, happiness, hard-questions, intuition, joy, lack-of-intuition, leave, losing, love, meanings, meanings-we-give-people, meanings-we-give-situations, negative-emotions, negative-outlook, no-trust, outcomes, outlook, passive, person, perspective, positive-emotions, positive-outlook, pursue, saddness, sentiments, signs, situation, slavery, stay, symbolism, trust, what-it-means-to-you, winning, wrong-perception

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#29

“The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: activism, adventures, attitude, choosing-peace, conviction-of-the-heart, creating-a-better-you, creating-miracles, creating-oneself, discipline, disciplined, enjoying-life, enjoyment, freedom, fun, goal-setting, goals, happiness, joy, motivation, not-surving-life, passion, passionate-living, play, positive-outlook, service, staying-positive-university, tyring-new-things

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#30

“Some people say, “Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.” My Christ says, “Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing hymns and get a feel good message, that you may or may not apply, depending on the depth of your anger for someone. It is about caring for and helping the broken hearted, the difficult, the hurt, the misunderstood, the repulsive, the wicked and the liars. It is about turning the other cheek when someone hurts you. It is about loving one another and making amends. It is allowing people as many chances as they need because God gives them endless chances. When you do this then you will know me and you will know true happiness and peace. Until then, you will never know who I really am. You will always be just a fan or a Sunday only warrior. You will continue to represent who you are to the world, but not me. I am the God that rescues.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: building-testimonies, caring-for-others, charity, christ, christ-s-ministry, christianity, christians, closure, communication, conflict, conflict-resolution, evolution, fan, followers, forgiving, god-s-love, good-works, grace, harmful-quotes, honor, honour, hope, hypocrisy, improvement, integrity, jesus, kindness, lifting-others, love, love-one-another, pleasing-god, prayers, reaching-out, rejoice, rescue, rising-above, spiritual-evolution, spirituality, warriors, works

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