The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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 remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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