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“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
― Alan Cohen

“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.”
― 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

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

“Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.”
― Alan Cohen

“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
― Alan Cohen

“It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.”
― Alan Cohen

“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”
― Alan Cohen

“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone”
― Alan Cohen

“When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.”
― Alan Cohen

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

“You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.”
― Alan Cohen

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor”
― Alan Cohen

“To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.”
― Alan Cohen

“View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross.
View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.”
― Alan Cohen

“Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.”
― Alan Cohen

“Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.”
― Alan Cohen

“People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes".”
― Alan Cohen

“The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense around you.”
― Alan Cohen

“Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.”
― Alan Cohen

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

“Take care what words you speak that follow “I am.” In so speaking you create your life.”
― 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

“Quit planning your dream and start living it.”
― Alan Cohen

“For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.”
― Alan Cohen

“Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.”
― Alan Cohen

“Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.”
― Alan Cohen

“Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.”
― Alan Cohen

“Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.”
― Alan Cohen

“You empower what you fight.
You withdraw power from what you release.”
― Alan Cohen