Alan Cohen Quotes

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

Hope is a very thin diet.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Always enjoy the ride, because you don't know where it's going, but it's going to be all right.

Something will turn up.

I have been an optimist all my life, and I firmly believe in the final triumph of human reason.

There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.