If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.
—Shannon L. Alder
No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.
—Shannon L. Alder
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
—Shannon L. Alder
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
—Shannon L. Alder
People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.
—Shannon L. Alder