Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
JORDAN PETERSONOne 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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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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