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Rule #3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You

  • It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
  • If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness
  • But mostly they are dragging you down because your new improvements cast their faults in an even dimmer light.

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Rule #3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You

  • “It is only right to see the best in people. The highest virtue is the desire to help.” But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it
  • Before you help someone, you shou...

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Rule #2: Treat Yourself As Someone You Are Responsible Helping

  • Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you
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Rule #3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You

  • When people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it
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When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain. You remi...

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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer

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