Top 300 Alan Cohen Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

103. “We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.”

— Alan Cohen

104. “You weren’t born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you’ll have everything you want.”

— Alan Cohen

105. “Any problem you recognize represents but a tiny blip on the radar screen of your well-being. Even while you are experiencing a difficulty, homeostasis is working on your behalf to return you to perfect balance. Your role is simply to relax and allow nature to take its healing course.”

— Alan Cohen

106. “As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.”

— Alan Cohen

107. “We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.”

— Alan Cohen

108. “Completion is an attitude, not an event.”

— Alan Cohen

109. “Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.”

— Alan Cohen

110. “You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.”

— Alan Cohen

111. “Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.”

— Alan Cohen

112. “Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.”

— Alan Cohen

113. “You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.”

— Alan Cohen

114. “The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

116. “One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.”

— Alan Cohen

117. “Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

119. “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

120. “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

121. “Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.”

— Alan Cohen

122. “If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.”

— Alan Cohen

123. “Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.”

— Alan Cohen

124. “Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.”

— Alan Cohen

125. “The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.”

— Alan Cohen

126. “The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.”

— Alan Cohen

127. “Self-worth makes you extremely attractive.”

— Alan Cohen

128. “The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.”

— Alan Cohen

129. “Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

131. “Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.”

— Alan Cohen

132. “What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?”

— Alan Cohen

133. “What happens to you happens from you.”

— Alan Cohen

134. “If you know something is true, you don’t need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.”

— Alan Cohen

135. “No matter what has happened, let today be new.”

— Alan Cohen

136. “The words “genius” and “genuine” derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.”

— Alan Cohen

137. “The only real knowledge is who you really are – a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.”

— Alan Cohen

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138. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

139. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

141. “You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

143. “Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.”

— Alan Cohen

144. “The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.”

— Alan Cohen

145. “All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.”

— Alan Cohen

146. “Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.”

— Alan Cohen

147. “When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don’t deserve to suffer. No one does.”

— Alan Cohen

148. “When you express your true delight, you make the world a better place.”

— Alan Cohen

149. “The person you are is far greater than the person you think you are.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen