It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
JORDAN PETERSONAlongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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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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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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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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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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