The 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.
JORDAN PETERSONMuch of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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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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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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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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