You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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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 not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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.
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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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