Quotes by Alan Cohen

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Time reveals character.”

“Quit making believe you dont know.You do know. Act on it.”

“Forgiveness doesnt make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.”

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

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

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

“Anger is the egos way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.”

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

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

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