Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSONConsult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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 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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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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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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