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.
JORDAN PETERSONDon’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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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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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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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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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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