Knowledge is power, but too much knowledge can blind you to truth.

Alan Cohen

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

Think less about approaching death and more about approaching life.

Alan Cohen

It takes great courage to see the world in its tainted glory and still love it.

Oscar Wilde

The expectation that something bad will happen stems from the belief that something bad has happened, neither of which, on the most fundamental level, is true.

Alan Cohen

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann

No one can take away your good, while everyone can bestow it.

Alan Cohen

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

Why is it that in the movies or television, no one ever makes an error while typing? And they always find a parking place right in front of where they are going?

Alan Cohen

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Alan Cohen

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

William James

You don’t have to get sick to say no to what you do not want to do. You can just say no.

Alan Cohen

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Decline through aging is not inherited. It is learned.

Alan Cohen

The perception of progress is as important as progress itself.

NBC news commentator, on the economy

Everyone has energy to do what they want to do, and no energy to do what they do not want to do.

Alan Cohen

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

No one comes to this world who does not have to find his way back to heaven.

Alan Cohen

If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.

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There is a reward in helping someone else that runs far deeper than simply helping yourself.

Alan Cohen

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

No one can bother you unless you agree with them.

Alan Cohen

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Colette

It’s not what you ask for that you receive. What you receive is what you believe.

Alan Cohen

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Source unknown

You will find more love by generating it than by seeking it.

Alan Cohen

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

If you would just do it, it would be done.

Alan Cohen

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The longer I walk through life, the more I am disillusioned with what the world has to offer, and the more I appreciate what the world has to offer.

Alan Cohen