Shannon L. Alder

"Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in."

"In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together."

"Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important."

"Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell."

"God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!"

"You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours."

"The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need."

"You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires."

"The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do."

"The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard."

"Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you."

"Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete."

"You can't have the rainbow without the storm."

"Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for."

"God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles."

"The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do."

"Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women's qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn't like. She doesn't blame people for not seeing what she doesn't always see in herself."

"The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for."

"True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise."

"It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know."