There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
JORDAN PETERSONWe cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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