Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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 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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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