{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"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"],"id":7787,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["christ","closure","compassion","forgiveness","letting-go","love","reaching-out","rescuers","sermons","understanding"],"id":78598,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","answers","clarification","commonsense","communication","conflict","cryptic","gods-warriors","humor","issues","listening","prayers","praying","problems","relentless","rescuers","solutions","storms","stubborn","tenacity","truth-seekers","warriors"],"id":101643,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier.","author":"Nikki Sex","tags":["counseling","counselors","emotions","rescuers","responsibility"],"id":149462,"author_id":"Nikki+Sex"},{"text":"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","aging","beautiful-personatlity","beautiful-soul","charity","communicators","community","compassion","empathetic","fathers","friendships","givers","giving-heart","helping-out","homeless-tent-community","inner-beauty","inspiration","inspirational","jealousy","judgement","loving","marine-life-conservation","medical-missions","mothers","motivators","openess","outward-beauty","people-of-action","perspectives","philosophy","prayer","real-people","reflection","rescuers","search-and-rescue","service","takers","tender","time","true-beauty","truth","vanity","writing"],"id":214835,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["christlike","commonsense","consequences-of-evil","end-results","future-prediction","intelligence","loving-one-another","ramifications","rescuers","results","saving-lives","search-and-rescue","sinners","truth"],"id":246691,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","anger-management","big-picture","communication","compassion","confict-resolution","conflict","courage","crossroads","empathy","faulty-perceptions","flaws","growth","lessons-learned","letting-go","proactive","rescuers","see","seeing-the-big-picture","speculations","spiritual-evolution","staying-positive","tests","the-future","the-past","trials","weakness","white-path"],"id":247441,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The Warrior Woman Code:A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or need to tear down other women to be loved. She knows her value. When the person she is meant to be with finds her, that person will know it also. He won't be confused by it. He will fight for her because without her he feels incomplete. She will always be foremost in his mind above anyone else. She doesn't have to scheme to keep or entice him. She is okay walking away from him because she doesn't want to be seen as a choice or a woman that has some potential. She demands to be seen as 'the one.' To settle for anything less than that is an admission of insecurity and lack of self love.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","being-in-love","brutal-truth","confidence","courageous-women","dignity","gentlemen","happy-women","knights","mature-women","queen","rescuers","respect","self-confidence","stayingpositiveu-com","strength","the-one","the-right-person","true","true-love","valuable","value","valued","warrior-women","women-of-worth"],"id":307276,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.","author":"Shannon L. 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