It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
JORDAN PETERSONThe successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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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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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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