That’s poetic in its malevolence.
JORDAN PETERSONOld age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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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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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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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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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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It is far better to render beings in your car 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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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