Be Thyself
“Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” -Matthew Arnold
Know Yourself
Distinctive Character
“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.” –Edward Wilmot Blyden
Give A Man A Fish
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” –John D. Rockefeller
Copycat
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinion. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.” –Oscar Wilde
Manifest The Inner World
“If you bring forth what is in you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” -Gospel of Thomas
Self Actualization
“There comes a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide and that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Are You?
“No matter what happens always willing to be yourself. The problem of willing to be yourself is as old as history and as universal as human life.” -Dr. James Gordon Gilkey
Know Yourself
“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody else and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” Dale Carnegie
The Still Small Voice
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” –Howard Thurman … Read moreThe Still Small Voice