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.
JORDAN PETERSONIf 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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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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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 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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Much of happiness is hope.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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