Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
Interpretation
Surround yourself with positive influences to enhance your life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive relationships and environments. By making it a rule to connect with uplifting people and situations, one can significantly improve their well-being, potentially more than through traditional therapeutic means.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to encourage personal growth.
In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don't be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.
Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
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