Quotes by Alan Cohen

“If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too.”

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

“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.”

“Our history is not our destiny”

“Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.”

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Dont wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

“Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesnt.”

“You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.”

“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.”

“Youre making a system-level decision on where to roam, ... Its an easier, more efficient roaming process.”

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.

Be sure you dont lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Time reveals character.

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

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

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

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.