If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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There 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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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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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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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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