Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONThat which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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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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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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