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I hope you find these Alan Cohen Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
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