Alan Cohen, is the author of 24 popular inspirational books, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog? He is a contributing writer for the New York Times #1 bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul, and his books have been translated into 24 foreign languages. His work has been featured on Oprah.com and in USA Today, The Washington Post and 101 Top Experts. Alan’s radio program Get Real is broadcast weekly on Hay House Radio, and his monthly column From the Heart is featured in magazines internationally.

Alan is a respected keynoter and seminar leader for professional meetings in the fields of personal growth, inspiration, holistic health, human relations, and achievement of work/life balance. He has served as Instructor of Individual and Group Dynamics at Montclair State College, stood on the faculty of Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and is a professor at EnTheos Academy for Optimal Living. He has appeared on national radio and television, including Good Morning shows, and his seminars have regularly been broadcast via satellite on the Wisdom Channel and on Gaiam TV. He is a featured presenter in the award-winning documentary Finding Joe, celebrating the teachings of visionary mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Alan brings a warm blend of wisdom, intimacy, humor, and vision to the path of personal, professional, and spiritual growth. He loves to extract lessons from the practical experiences of daily living, and find beauty in the seeming mundane. Many readers and seminar participants have reported that his teachings have brought them deep encouragement and empowerment, and inspired them to believe in themselves and achieve new levels of success in their personal and professional life.

15 inspiring quotations from alan h cohen

1. 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.

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

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

4. Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

5. You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

6. 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.

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

8. If you sense there must be more, there is more.

9. To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

10. You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

11. Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.

12. 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.

13. The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

14. You are doing better than you think you are.

15. You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.