It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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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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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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