That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSONAristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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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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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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 far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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