T.W. Shannon Quotes

Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.

Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!

How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

The closer he was the less confident I was.

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

I don’t believe that, " I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.

Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.

That falls into the category of advice that sounds helpful but actually makes no freaking sense.

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.

It's not about changing "them, " it's about healing YOU.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

I’m sorry, my lady, ” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Don't beat yourself up, " said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...

Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'.

Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen.

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

God is the creator of all good plot twists!

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.

There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.

This is just your unwritten life. You didn’t expect it, it just happened.