You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONThus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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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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