Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONThere are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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