T.W. Shannon Quotes

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?

If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE.

It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away.

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.

You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

Everyone has a story - find yours!

We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Love crosses the sky on a peculiar disturbing night.

The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more.

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

Darian murdered them in cold blood. That’s a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.

A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.

A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!