Alan Cohen Quotes

Liberation does not come from outside.

I no longer limit myself.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.