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.
JORDAN PETERSONTruth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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