It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSON
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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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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