To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
JORDAN PETERSONWho cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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