FastSaying

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.


Alan Cohen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you."
"Be careful what you ask for you ...
AMANDA STEPHAN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
DALE CARNEGIE Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
W.P. KINSELLA Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get
INGRID BERGMAN Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.......
MOYWAYWA Part of the process of getting what you want is learning what you don't want.
JIM GENOVESE Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.
DALE CARNEGIE Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s l...
TOM HANKS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to fi...
DAVID LEVITHAN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If th...
JAMES A. MURPHY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One of the greatest keys to getting what you want in life is to ask for it.
JANINE LATTIMORE If you don’t ask for what you want, you will most certainly not get it. But the first thing is to ...
MARTHA LEE How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don’...
ABRAHAM-HICKS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
BEN STEIN I don't know what's around the corner for the US. I'm hopeful it'll not be what we deserve.
BOBBY W. MILLER Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
TOM KRAUSE Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
SOURCE UNKNOWN Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you...
BERNARD MELTZER there is a huge difference between giving what you get and getting what you give
REZA FARIVAR Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writin...
SUZE ORMAN The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you wan...
BEN STEIN He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers,...
UFUOMA APOKI A rap at the back door made her jump, and she peered through the window for a long time before she e...
RACHEL CAINE When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in th...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The only way to get what you want out of life is by asking.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
PETER MCWILLIAMS I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it...
CHUCK NORRIS Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE It doesn't affect the way I feel about you, but is it wrong that I want you to experience the joy I'...
LAURA TRENTHAM Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the wh...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.
ARDIS WHITMAN Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
LORII MYERS Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
DAN STANFORD Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
DAN STANFORD Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
ROBERT L. STEVENSON Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want.
RANDY PAUSCH People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (To put it another way: When yo...
JAMES ALLEN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk abou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
GILLIAN FLYNN The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
FRANK BUTLER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER It is better to want what you have than to have what you want.
PROVERB You have to decide what you want first of all. The problem with so many people is that they do not k...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The joy of life is not measured by what you have but what others have because of you.
PATRICK LAZARO FONTE If you want to be loved, do what others want. If you want to live, do what you want. The choice is y...
MAHRUKH If you don't get what you want, you want what you get
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) The only way to get what we want is to be what we want.
TALIDARI Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but p...
TAVI GEVINSON

More Alan Cohen

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, a...
ALAN COHEN How good can you let it get?
ALAN COHEN Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
ALAN COHEN To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. I...
ALAN COHEN Our history is not our destiny
ALAN COHEN Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ...
ALAN COHEN Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you sh...
ALAN COHEN You are doing better than you think you are.
ALAN COHEN What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
ALAN COHEN Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emul...
ALAN COHEN You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.
ALAN COHEN If you sense there must be more, there is more.
ALAN COHEN Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
ALAN COHEN God is a frequency. Stay tuned.
ALAN COHEN You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.
ALAN COHEN Our history is not our destiny.
ALAN COHEN Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than look...
ALAN COHEN You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
ALAN COHEN You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your ...
ALAN COHEN It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But ther...
ALAN COHEN The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
ALAN COHEN To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you di...
ALAN COHEN Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening ins...
ALAN COHEN Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching.
Finding represents the achieveme...
ALAN COHEN As may be expected, we found that CDH (consumer-driven health care) is a dynamic, fast-growing innov...
ALAN COHEN You're making a system-level decision on where to roam, ... It's an easier, more efficient roaming p...
ALAN COHEN There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
ALAN COHEN When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.
ALAN COHEN He'd turned a prison into an opera hall. That's an example of taking what you have and making it int...
ALAN COHEN 'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more lik...
ALAN COHEN So I'm true to my unique gifts, and I make space for others. And we all end up winning.
ALAN COHEN Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as aweso...
ALAN COHEN We seized the right opportunities and were in the right place at the right time with the right group...
ALAN COHEN Live entertainment is really prospering, and people are demonstrating their appetite for live theate...
ALAN COHEN If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like Go...
ALAN COHEN I am sad. It's like seeing my oldest son go off to college. I know he is ready for the world, but I ...
ALAN COHEN He's looking for more than just a few-year run. That requires patience and not selling the future fo...
ALAN COHEN There is always going to be some differences of opinion. The good thing is that Mike and Jacques go ...
ALAN COHEN We will provide more information as we get closer to the opening,
ALAN COHEN It will be a unique, multi-channel premium athletic store that speaks to active trend-conscious wome...
ALAN COHEN They have all witnessed the devastation and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina on television, a...
ALAN COHEN Cisco and Duke are now giving the class of 2009 a wireless 'triple-play' -- voice, video and data --...
ALAN COHEN We love to get people out.
ALAN COHEN Paiva is very important to us because it gives us the third concept.
ALAN COHEN If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
ALAN COHEN A synagogue is a house for the Torahs, and it's also a house of God, ... When we (Jews) build a new ...
ALAN COHEN Once, a woman stood up and said, 'I'm a boss that sucks. When I go home, I don't like myself,'
ALAN COHEN With half of Broadway audiences coming from outside the New York area and Broadway being the No. 1 r...
ALAN COHEN To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
ALAN COHEN For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relations...
ALAN COHEN You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
ALAN COHEN If you know something is true, you don’t need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convi...
ALAN COHEN Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. ...
ALAN COHEN No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.
ALAN COHEN Giving in order to get is not giving.
ALAN COHEN When your intention is clear, so is the way.
ALAN COHEN If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.
ALAN COHEN Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was n...
ALAN COHEN The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.
ALAN COHEN Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be pa...
JOSHUA COHEN When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writer...
LARRY COHEN All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment ...
LARRY COHEN Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies ...
LARRY COHEN Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
LARRY COHEN The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terri...
LARRY COHEN I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is...
ANDY COHEN I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my tr...
ANDY COHEN We are still the same flea market, just a new location. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that ...
AL COHEN We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what w...
AL COHEN We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.
AL COHEN It is just like a regular Broadway musical review.
AL COHEN I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.
ANDY COHEN When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long a...
ADAM COHEN Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By...
ADAM COHEN The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
ADAM COHEN Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local...
ADAM COHEN It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shi...
ADAM COHEN The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of ...
ADAM COHEN It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act tha...
ADAM COHEN Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many...
ADAM COHEN Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in ...
ADAM COHEN A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a reco...
ADAM COHEN The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the cr...
ADAM COHEN Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other ite...
ADAM COHEN Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting ...
ADAM COHEN Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and w...
ADAM COHEN It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such ...
ADAM COHEN In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and...
ADAM COHEN Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
ADAM COHEN People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased...
ADAM COHEN A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge o...
ADAM COHEN There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: alw...
ADAM COHEN Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left...
ADAM COHEN One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work a...
ADAM COHEN The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to t...
ADAM COHEN Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter f...
ANDY COHEN I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an...
RICH COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that ma...
LYOR COHEN I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. Th...
SASHA COHEN If undertaken, it would be aimed at extending, not ending, the current economic expansion.
ABBY COHEN Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transi...
ABBY COHEN We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 19...
ABBY COHEN The basic conclusion is that 1999-2000 will bring further gains in corporate profits, mild-mannered ...
ABBY COHEN If crude prices are near their trough, earnings should start to flatten out and move up.
ABBY COHEN The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizo...
ABBY COHEN I think what we had today was a disconnect between the stock market and the economy. The U.S. econom...
ABBY COHEN I think it was more of an excuse. Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around t...
ABBY COHEN Data suggest that economic activity has bottomed and that the worst is now being reported for corpor...
ABBY COHEN Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investme...
ABBY COHEN I do think advancement benefits my family as whole.
ADAM COHEN Its hard to have a decent family life and advance at work,
ADAM COHEN Cats in the Cradle.
ADAM COHEN The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we're doing. So...
ADAM COHEN Everything we were doing back then was utilizing historic tax credits, but this did not qualify beca...
ADAM COHEN [The Miami relatives also failed to persuade the court that no Cuban medical or mental health person...
ADAM COHEN [That ruling may bode well for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who has petitioned the court to recognize his e...
ADAM COHEN So far, Washington has done little and New Orleans' response has been less than satisfying.
ADAM COHEN Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to ...
ADAM COHEN The Bonanza was potentially in the path of flights. We needed to stop all departing traffic to keep ...
ADAM COHEN I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ...
ANAT COHEN You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more go...
ANDY COHEN You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with i...
ANDY COHEN Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the...
ANDY COHEN I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's ...
ANDY COHEN When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoev...
ANDY COHEN If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma La...
ANDY COHEN It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ...
BARBARA COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, w...
ANDREW COHEN What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN Be happy or die.
ROB COHEN The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunit...
RONALD COHEN One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister a...
BETSY COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ...
CHAPMAN COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CHAPMAN COHEN You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
HERB COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
FELIX COHEN The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literatur...
JOSHUA COHEN Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal deta...
ANDY COHEN Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands ou...
LEONARD COHEN The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And ...
ANDY COHEN I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me...
LEONARD COHEN Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
LEONARD COHEN Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t...
LEONARD COHEN Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special thing...
ANAT COHEN I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN Music is the emotional life of most people.
LEONARD COHEN In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.
ANDY COHEN This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ...
LEONARD COHEN The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, w...
RICH COHEN A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
LEONARD COHEN Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get ple...
SASHA COHEN A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I...
SASHA COHEN I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
SASHA COHEN