“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”
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“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
Source: en.wikiquote.org - Oprah Winfrey / Quotes / CNN interview (2011)
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it. (...) One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: "I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others".
Source: Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance
“Whatever you rebuke your neighbor for, do not do it yourself.”
Apophthegms of the Seven Sages, in Early Greek Philosophy: Beginnings and Ionian Thinkers, Loeb Classical Library Volume 525 (2016), p. 145
