Alan Cohen Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them.

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

What we seek is what we are.

The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Your choices make you whoever you turn out to be.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.