Alan Cohen

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"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

"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."

- Alan Cohen

"All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love."

- Alan Cohen

"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

"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want."

- Alan Cohen

"Be happy with what you want. Be excited about what you get"

- Alan Cohen

"Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson"

- Alan Cohen

"Our history is not our destiny."

- Alan Cohen

"Don’t wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

"The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth."

- Alan Cohen

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"When your intention is clear, so is the way."

- Alan Cohen

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

- Alan Cohen

"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

"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."

- Alan Cohen

"Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out."

- Alan Cohen