You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
JORDAN PETERSONPerhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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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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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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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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