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.
JORDAN PETERSONWho cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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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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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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 are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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