Gary Chapman Quotes

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.