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.
JORDAN PETERSONYou 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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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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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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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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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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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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