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.
JORDAN PETERSONThe 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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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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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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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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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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