Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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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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When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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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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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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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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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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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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