To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
JORDAN PETERSONPerhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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