T.W. Shannon Quotes

...even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

Look for the consistency and you will find all the trust you need. It is often found in the people that stick around long after every one has decided to leave.

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes. -Vane Weston

...the truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness.

God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don't ....do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness.

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

When someone you love dies, part of you dies with them. It's why your never the same after losing someone.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

The fear of losing someone you love can turn people inside out.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Humor shares an edge with hilarity.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.

Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live.

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.

A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.

The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe.

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.