Quotes from Alan Cohen

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

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

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

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

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

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

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Our history is not our destiny.

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

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

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

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

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.

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

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

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.