Always place your becoming above your current being.
JORDAN PETERSONYou don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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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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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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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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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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