Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
JORDAN PETERSONThere’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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We 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.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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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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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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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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