Top 300 Alan Cohen Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.”

— Alan Cohen

202. “Time reveals character.”

— Alan Cohen

203. “If you simply love yourself, just as you are, right where you are, you will become an unstoppable force for healing and transformation.”

— Alan Cohen

204. “Don’t apologize for your uniqueness. Claim it as your genius.”

— Alan Cohen

205. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – HOWARD THURMAN.”

— Alan Cohen

206. “Everything that happens ultimately serves us. An experience might not appear to be perfect according to the ego’s plan, but it may be supremely perfect according to Spirit’s plan.”

— Alan Cohen

207. “The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.”

— Alan Cohen

208. “Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.”

— Alan Cohen

209. “Nothing in the world is permanent, including hard times. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, stay connected to your spiritual source, and you will emerge with unexpected gifts. That’s a promise.”

— Alan Cohen

210. “You are good not for what you do, but for who you are. When you recognize your deep inherent value, you make wise decisions that lead to greater good for you and everyone involved. Lao Tse would say, “Trust what you are, and all that you do will bless the world.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

215. “Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.”

— Alan Cohen

216. “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.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

220. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

228. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

232. “There is nothing missing.”

— Alan Cohen

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

240. “Anger is a call for awareness.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

246. “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

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Alan Cohen

250. “Give yourself space to be what you are. Give others space to be what they are. Then everything will make itself clear.”

— Alan Cohen