Alan Cohen Quotes

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

When you're happy at home, it spills out into every other area of your life.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.

I know that there are other sides to life. All the more reason why I now try to convey to the people out there how important it is to feel a sense of joy.

I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

I love myself when I am laughing.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.