Top 300 Alan Cohen Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.”

— Alan Cohen

202. “Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.”

— Alan Cohen

203. “Time reveals character.”

— Alan Cohen

204. “Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.”

— Alan Cohen

205. “To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

207. “You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

209. “The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.”

— Alan Cohen

210. “Don’t use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.”

— Alan Cohen

211. “You won’t be happy anywhere until you’re happy somewhere.”

— Alan Cohen

212. “Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?”

— Alan Cohen

213. “All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.”

— Alan Cohen

214. “Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.”

— Alan Cohen

215. “Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You’re never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You’ll rise above every circumstance because you’re greater than any circumstance.”

— Alan Cohen

216. “You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.”

— Alan Cohen

217. “If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

219. “As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.”

— Alan Cohen

220. “Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.”

— Alan Cohen

221. “We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.”

— Alan Cohen

222. “One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.”

— Alan Cohen

223. “While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.”

— Alan Cohen

224. “No one can bother you unless you agree with them.”

— Alan Cohen

225. “The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.”

— Alan Cohen

226. “If you have to have it, it’s ego. If you have to not have it, it’s ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don’t.”

— Alan Cohen

227. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

228. “Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.”

— Alan Cohen

229. “Affirmations are more powerful than requests, for they remind you that you already have what you seek.”

— Alan Cohen

230. “The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.”

— Alan Cohen

231. “You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.”

— Alan Cohen

232. “Anger is a call for awareness.”

— Alan Cohen

233. “People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.”

— Alan Cohen

234. “Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.”

— Alan Cohen

235. “Be grateful, then, that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or fed up with what is not feeding you. Toleration of dysfunction only keeps it in force. Refuse to put up with what is not working, and you will find your way to your perfect place in the Great Design.”

— Alan Cohen

236. “To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.”

— Alan Cohen

237. “Don’t wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

239. “Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily – more easily – use it to formulate answers.”

— Alan Cohen

240. “It’s not more time you need. It’s more quality use of the time you already have.”

— Alan Cohen

241. “The future you expect is a projection of your beliefs about the past. The future will be like the past only if you keep thinking the same thoughts.”

— Alan Cohen

242. “Giving in order to get is not giving.”

— Alan Cohen

243. “Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.”

— Alan Cohen

244. “When you are excited about reaching a goal, you are connected to the source of life. Many people judge or dismiss passion as being self-indulgent, but authentic passion moves us to fulfill our soul’s mission, attract abundance and success, and serve humanity.”

— Alan Cohen

245. “You cannot control the behavior of others, and you cannot dictate the choices they make. But you have total control over which aspects of them you are selecting to magnify in your experience. This is where your true authority lives. “My Father gives all power unto me.”

— Alan Cohen

246. “Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening.”

— Alan Cohen

247. “Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of “not it” amplifies your intention to find “it,” and you surely will.”

— Alan Cohen

248. “Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.”

— Alan Cohen

249. “If God puts yearning in your heart, that same God will give you the guidance and means to fulfill it.”

— Alan Cohen

250. “Probe, challenge, and grow beyond any belief system that does not acknowledge you as already divine and Grace as already present. Don’t stop until everything you seek is already given.”

— Alan Cohen