You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONBegin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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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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