Alan Cohen famous quotes
06-13-2025
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
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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.
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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!
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Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
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Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.
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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.
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Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
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Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
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Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
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When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
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The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
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To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
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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.
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To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
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The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
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Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
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Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.
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Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.
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Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
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Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.
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The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
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Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
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Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.
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Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
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The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.
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When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.
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Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
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We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.
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Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.†If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.
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The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
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If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
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Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
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You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.
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Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
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No one can bother you unless you agree with them.
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Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
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The people who matter will recognize who you are.
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The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
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Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
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You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.
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Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
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Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
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You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
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Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.
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View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
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Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.
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To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
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There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
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Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.
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Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
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When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
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You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
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You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.
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Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.
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You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.
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Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.
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What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.
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An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
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The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.
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You change the past when you change the way you see it.
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While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.
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Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
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To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.
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How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?
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Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
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The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.
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You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
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You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.
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If you sense there must be more, there is more.
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
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Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.
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You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
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You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
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Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
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We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
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Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
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Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
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Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
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You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
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The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
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Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
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Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.
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If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
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Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
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The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
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Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.
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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. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
-- Alan Cohen
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