T.W. Shannon Quotes

What good is intuition if your heart gets in the way of hearing it?

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.

It’s going to be okay, Eric, " Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)

The comfort was peculiarly chilling.

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers.

The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.

Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.

He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on his Pinterest site.” Then it sunk in- timing was everything and social media was the devil.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

We live with the scars we choose.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.

God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

They don’t have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I’d have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.

In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.

The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.

This is who I am.A fighter.A guardian.Stronger than the Stormers.Stronger than Vane.Beyond all emotion.I don't give in to fear or pity or love. I'm the one in control.

I could say it all began with my mother.

Who is this woman, and what has she done with my ever worrying mother?

..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.