{"quotes":[{"text":"You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["hurt","insanity","pain","tsloama"],"id":41204,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beginnings","change","closure","crossroads","different","different-lives","different-paths","endings","ends","evolution","evolve","experiences","forgiveness","freedom","friend","future","goals","grateful","happiness","happy-for-others","healed","healing","inner-peace","journeys","joy","learning","letting-go","life","life-lessons","living","moving-on","no-regrets","paths","peace","plans","playful-banter","positive","realism","reality","rescues","see-clearly","stages-of-growth","staying-positive","stories","the-future","the-past","timing","transition","tsloama","well","well-wishing","wellness"],"id":56657,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achievements","adventure","books","cruelty","disappointments","dreams","expressing","expressing-emotions","expressing-oneself","friendship","happiness","inspiration","joy","love","novels","obstacles","overcoming","pages","pain","sharing","sorrow","soul","stories","teaching","trials","tsloama","writers"],"id":112554,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angry-people","arguments","bickering","brothers","bullies","causes","comedy","commonsense","crazy-people","disputes","family","friends","humor","mass-delusion","mobs","nonsense","relationships","ridiculous","riots","siblings","sillyness","sisters","stupidity","truth","tsloama","wit"],"id":191523,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adhd","horcrux","novels","resurrection","tsloama","witches"],"id":211348,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["audrey-hepburn","being-me","final-statements","frankly-dear-i-don-t-give-a-damn","humor","monologue","oscar-wilde","rett-butler","sarcasm","tsloama"],"id":262280,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a beautiful story of hope, in every character. It is not one person god loves. He loves us all and this is his story, our story and theirs.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["love-one-another","novels","tsloama","us"],"id":317777,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["belief","best-friends","dreams","expectations","fairytales","faith","gods-plan","miracles","patients","perception","pondering","realism","reality","tsloama","viewpoint"],"id":373123,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adhd","balance","enjoyment","god-s-love","humor","impairments","insanity","jealous-women","justice","mental-disorders","ocd","redemption","sane","stupid-women","stupidity","truth","tsloama"],"id":376772,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.","author":"Shannon L. 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