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.
JORDAN PETERSONBegin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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