People with anxiety and trust issues find themselves drawn to people of consistency because they feel safe with someone who is predictable. However, that doesn’t cure their problem. The anxious person still remains the same because anxiety is a wave that crashes on the shore every time an unpredictable circumstance challenges their expectations and comfort zone.

— Shannon L. Alder

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of 'me' centered individuals.

— Shannon L. Alder

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

— Shannon L. Alder

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

— Shannon L. Alder

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

— Shannon L. Alder

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

— Criss Jami

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

— Shannon L. Alder

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

— Shannon L. Alder

True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.

— Shannon L. Alder

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

— Suzy Kassem