“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, ‘I want to know why!’”
"A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence."
- Shannon L. Alder
Love
"You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between."
- Shannon L. Alder
Love
"The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW."
- Shannon L. Alder
Awareness
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a lifelong quest of the wise."
- Shannon L. Alder
Awareness
"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, 'What else could this mean?'"
- Shannon L. Alder
Awareness
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity