Alan Cohen Quotes

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.

You are doing better than you think you are.