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.
JORDAN PETERSONSo, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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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 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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