The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONYou can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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