The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONBegin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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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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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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