The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Topic: Friendship, Networking
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If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
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