Money can’t buy you friends; it can only rent them.
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Honesty
Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
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Respect yourself
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you hbappy.
Robert Tew
It is hard in the first place, but worth the effort and you will enjoy it a lot in the long run.
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Are you envious?
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered
Aeschylus
You should give your friends respect and honour their accomplishments. Don’t envy their achievements but rather compliment them while working on your own. It is great that they succeed, you should support and enjoy that. What is more cool than having happy and successful friends?
Don’t destroy their success with envy and don’t suck the fun out of sharing achievements with close friends and family.
You will be suprised how much more awesome it feels when you can be happy with and for your friends rather than sitting in the dark corner and thinking fun-consuming thoughts about why they succeeded and you did not.
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Make your own decisions!
People will judge you either way so go ahead and just do what feels right
Phil
Often when facing scaring or just big decisions you might wonder what close friends or even family might think of you.
I mean “important” decisions like wether to quit a job or not or if you want to leave the country or not. When it comes to career, family planning or serious stuff like that you will most certainly picture yourself in the possible situations and think about how people will look at you.
Don’t do that!
People will judge you no matter what you do. That goes for family, friends and enemies. Everybody does it and there is nothing wrong with it.
Just don’t let this judgement confuse your decisions. You know what is right for you and it will work out in the end so have the courage to make strong decisions that are in harmony with your own thoughts rather than forming a person other people might like.
Another important point is that there are not always right and wrong decisions. You’ll make so many decisions in your life that it will never be possible to relate anything (good or bad) to one single one.
So don’t be afraid, make choices, face the consequences, gain experience and be prepared that you might want to change your opinion in the end.
At least you will never wonder “What would have happened if I had just trusted myself” but you will be more certain because you have personal experience instead of recommendations!
Making own decisions based on own thoughts is always more likeable in the end. What is the worth of a person that likes you just because you make decisions in his/her favor? Right, you rather would not hang around with such a person.
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So who do you hang out with?
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
It is very important to keep people around you that challenge you to be a better person.
People that challenge you to be the best you possibly can be!
There is a saying that tells you that you can get the personality of a person by looking at its three closest friends and there is a lot of truth in this. The people who you constantly spent time with change you in a lot of ways, their behaviour reflects on you and you will eventually be changed by them.
If you keep lazy people around you, people without aims, without dreams, without passion then your dreams will rotten. They will slowly die and it is damn hard to work against that.
So be careful who you hang out with. It really is a game-changer to actively choose your peer group in order to grow. Think about it, think about who you hang out with and see what you get out of that.
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Pick out high quality people to hang out with
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Surround yourself with high quality people who inspire and challenge you
This is so damn important!
There is a lot of truth in the proverb
If you want to find out who a person is, take a look at his three closest friends
Why? Because you are influenced very strongly by the people who are around you constantly.
Youn don’t become them, but you sync in with the time. This process should be watched and should commence with high quality people from whom you can actually learn something.
So don’t waste your time, go the extra mile and start spending a lot of quality time with quality people (not only best friends, but your parents/grand parents/sisters/brothers also by the way!)
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