Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
JORDAN PETERSONPeople who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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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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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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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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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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