Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONIt is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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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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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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