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.
JORDAN PETERSONWe 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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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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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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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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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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’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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