T.W. Shannon Quotes

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day.

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

I watch every reality show out there.

I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY

I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

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.

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.

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.

Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.

True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.