I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
JORDAN PETERSONSometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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.
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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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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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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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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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