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.
JORDAN PETERSONAlways place your becoming above your current being.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Don’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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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