Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
JORDAN PETERSONTo suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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