Alan Cohen Quotes

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.

~ Alan Cohen

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

~ Alan Cohen

Time reveals character.

~ Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

~ Alan Cohen

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

~ Alan Cohen

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

~ Alan Cohen

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

~ Alan Cohen

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

~ Alan Cohen

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

~ Alan Cohen

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

~ Alan Cohen

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

~ Alan Cohen

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

~ Alan Cohen

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

~ Alan Cohen

Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

~ Alan Cohen

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

~ Alan Cohen

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

~ Alan Cohen

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

~ Alan Cohen

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

~ Alan Cohen

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

~ Alan Cohen

All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.

~ Alan Cohen

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.

~ Alan Cohen

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

~ Alan Cohen

Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

~ Alan Cohen

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

~ Alan Cohen

Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.

~ Alan Cohen

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

~ Alan Cohen

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

~ Alan Cohen

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered, it is accepting them.

~ Alan Cohen

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

~ Alan Cohen

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

~ Alan Cohen

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

~ Alan Cohen

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

~ Alan Cohen

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

~ Alan Cohen

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

~ Alan Cohen

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

~ Alan Cohen

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no. People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes.

~ Alan Cohen

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

~ Alan Cohen

Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.

~ Alan Cohen

Experiment to discover how little you need.

~ Alan Cohen

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

~ Alan Cohen