Quote by Epictetus...
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Wisdom
"There are no negative feelings"
Priority request: one would have to first recognize them as illusion. Instead, this statement is more used like wishy washy, relativistic pop-psych advice that validates base level rage and grief (or any EC activity) and then permits them to run rampant in the psyche.
“Birds of a feather flock together”
The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character, or other distinctive attribute tend to mutually associate -- wikipedia.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" (article)
Good intentions do not lead to hell, neither do good motivations. The "tricky" part is good motivation mixed with negative intention, e.g. an initial focus on problem solving yet with the overall objective of gaining power or control.
"don't spoil it with thinking"
As spiritual students, we know thinking is overrated, but how much so?
"Never give up on your dreams"
Request: Typical self help/success advice, often used by celebrities and successful people to encourage others who wish to travel in their footsteps. It is usually taken to be inspiring. However, it is also sometimes seen as cheesy and impractical.
work smart, not hard
Hard work is at 200. Intellect is at 400.
"We don't lose our loved ones, we gain them"
Request: I feel closer to relatives after their death.
"believe in yourself"
Request: It seems belief is illusion and the separate self is as well, yet the statement feels empowering as one transcends what were previously thought to be limitations.
"by their fruits, ye shall know them"
"the character and nature of a person or thing can be judged by their actions and the results of those actions" -- brave AI.
"The less you want, the richer you are"
Priority request: This is a quote attributed to Yanni. It basically just suggests that the issue of lack is created by desire and is an illusion or a projection rather than a reality.
“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”
Part of one's spiritual foundation and assuming responsibility for one's words.
"keep it light"
A positive context and philosophy for life that is protective of the mind spiraling into dark thoughts and moods, it is a way of being consistent with the spiritual admonition "don't go there" regarding under-200 subjective realities.
"Right is right even if no one is doing it..."
"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" -- St. Augustine.
"Faith without reason leads to superstition..."
"...Reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism" -- Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio (Faith and Reason). Priority request.