Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
JORDAN PETERSONThat’s poetic in its malevolence.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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.
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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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