Alan Cohen Quotes

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

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

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

You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.

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

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

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

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

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

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

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

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

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

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

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

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

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

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

We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

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

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.