It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
JORDAN PETERSONYou should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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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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You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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