Rachel Cohn Quotes

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

It's like suddenly the canvas of my life has been cleared, and a completely new picture is painted. That's how I've been feeling ever since 'Sacred Games' was streamed.

I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.