When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’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.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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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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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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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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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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It is far better to render beings in your car 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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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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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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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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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