Love Quote by Dyan Cannon

Cannon’s line borrows borrowed authority: it smuggles a self-help credo through the front door of scripture. “As a man thinketh in his heart” (a paraphrase of Proverbs 23:7 in the King James tradition) is one of those biblical fragments that long ago escaped the pews and went mainstream, showing up in motivational posters, recovery circles, and the wellness-industrial complex. Coming from an actress, it lands less like theology and more like a practiced piece of survival language: a way to translate private turmoil into something manageable, even narratable.

The intent is quietly prescriptive. Not “your thoughts matter,” but “you are your thoughts,” with “heart” doing the rhetorical heavy lifting. It softens the command. “Heart” suggests authenticity, not mere cognition; it frames mindset as identity, and identity as destiny. That’s powerful because it bypasses argument and goes straight for self-policing: if you’re unhappy, anxious, stuck, the implied culprit is internal framing, not external conditions. It’s comforting in the way a simple lever is comforting: pull this, and life can change.

The subtext is a negotiation with agency in a world that treats women in entertainment as both image and commodity. Saying “so is he” (notably gendered, even when quoted by a woman) also reveals how these inherited lines carry old defaults. Cannon’s choice to quote the Bible isn’t just piety; it’s a bid for moral ballast, a claim that inner life is the one territory no audience, studio, or tabloid can fully own.