Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONYou’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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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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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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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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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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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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