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.
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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.
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
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