"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
"Be sure you don't 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."