Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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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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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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