"Be Yourself" * Today's Quote

  "Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."--Henry David Thoreau 

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -William Shakespeare

“What it means to be authentic:

• - to be more concerned with truth than opinions
• - to be sincere and not pretend
• - to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"
• - to know who you are and to be that person
• - to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
• - being confident to walk away from situations where you can't be yourself
• - being awake to your own feelings
• - being free from others' opinions of you
• - accepting and loving yourself” 

― Sue Fitzmaurice

Today's Quotation: Self-Control

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met." -Dwight Moody

"Our minds are mental greenhouses where unlawful thoughts, once planted, are nurtured and watered before being transplanted into the real world of unlawful actions... These actions are savored in the mind long before they are enjoyed in reality. The thought life, then, is our first line of defense in the battle of self-control." ~Jerry Bridges

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do...O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." ~Apostle Paul, Romans 7:18-19, 24-25a