John Jay Chapman Quotes

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances.

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I have no inner monologue.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.