{"quotes":[{"text":"Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-happy","choices","confidence","difficult-times","experiences","goals","growth","inspired-life","intelligence","lessons","lessons-learned-in-life","life","living","love","make-dreams-come-true","motivation","move","potential","potential-for-greatness","power","self-esteem-101","self-improvement","stayingpositiveu-com","take-action","take-control","wisdom"],"id":3568,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["build-values","chasing","chastity","daughters-of-god","dignity","ego","empowering-women","gratitude","hell-to-well","insecurity","knowing-your-worth","lessons-learned","let-it-go","letting-go","life-lessons","living-authentically","morals","moving-on","other-woman","pride","pursuit","quality","quality-women","rise-up","self-compassion","self-confidence","self-love","self-worth","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","temptress","to-be-human","wellness"],"id":4206,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bravery","compassionate","empowered-women","integrity","loving","powerful","quality","queens","stand-up-for-yourself","stayingpositiveu-com","strong","warrior-women"],"id":19641,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings, talents and gifts God meant for you to share.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["comparison","compatability","conformity","connection","copying","drone","emulate","self-esteem","self-worth","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":21091,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["belief-in-yourself","bravery","challenges","change","changing","comfort-zones","creators","dreamers","finding-courage","inventors","miracles","never-give-up","obstacles","optimisim","overcoming","peaceful-warriors","self-improvement","stayingpositiveu-com","stories","trying","uplifting","vision","visionary","warriors"],"id":22531,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["caring","cheering-section","dreamers","enthusiastic","excited-about-life","experiences","feeling-alive","fun","happy","hobbies","interested","like-minds","planners","positive","relationships-101","same-goals","shares","sidelines","stayingpositiveu-com","talents","tolerating"],"id":23783,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["attitude","communication","communicators","confidence","courage","games","insecurity","leadership","learn-to-communicate","passive-agressive","peacemakers","positive-attitude","silence","stayingpositiveu-com","war","wars"],"id":23906,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["awareness","beginnings","choices","courage","decisions","discernment","dying","ends","fear","feelings","freedom","future","god-s-plan","growth","heart","holy-ghost","knowing","living","mind","obsession","perspective","prayers","searching","stayingpositiveu-com","stories","thoughts","trust","truth","understanding","unknown","vision","whispers"],"id":24977,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["dating-101","dating-advice","dream-girl","dream-guy","effort","marriage","relationships-101","selective","self-worth","settling","significant-other","spouse","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":30695,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.","author":"Shannon L. 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