The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONThere 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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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