Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
JORDAN PETERSONThere’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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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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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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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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 are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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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 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.
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