Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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