The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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