Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.


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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
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
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest s...
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
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
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...
CHAPMAN COHEN
I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' w...
ANAT COHEN
Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the...
ANAT COHEN
The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.
ANAT COHEN
We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautif...
ANAT COHEN
Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.
ANAT COHEN
When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play wha...
ANAT COHEN
The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.
ANAT COHEN
Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and ne...
ANAT COHEN