Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
JORDAN PETERSONAnd if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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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 can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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