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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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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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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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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