Take a good amount of time and look at your friends – the kind of company you are into. Just think it over – if you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your son or your sister, why would you have such a friend for yourself?

In our relations we see people who are not hopeful, they are in a habit of cursing their situation and moreover going down. If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person in the past, moreover also in the present & future as well. In this manner, you strip him of all power.

Do you want to be someone who is lazy, addicted to bad habits and who doesn’t have any purpose? If he is not encouraging you it means he is pulling you down. He can never be your well-wisher. You shouldn’t look to stay with them.

On the contrary, you’d like to be someone who keeps positive thoughts and can inspire you to elevate your life. This way you can save yourself a lot of problems. It’s very important to have some purpose in one’s life, every day brings new opportunities and hopes in your life.  

You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. The desire to improve was, instead, the precondition for progress. It’s not selfish – it’s rather a good thing to choose people who are good for you.

Don’t think that it is easier to have good people around you. No, it’s not. A good, healthy person is ideal. It requires strength and daring to stand up near such a person.

Have some humility. Have some courage. Use your judgment, and protect yourself from too-uncritical compassion and pity. So always make friends with people who want the best for you.