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.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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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 betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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You 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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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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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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