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.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t use language instrumentally.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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 act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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