Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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 you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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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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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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