Alan Cohen Quotes

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

You always knows what's best for you.

I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not.

I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.

I know what is best for me.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

All I've ever needed is myself.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth, your heart is completely free.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

You are the only person that you agree with 100 percent of the time.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

Do what you're happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you 'acting a color.' You don't act at all. You just do what you think is best.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.