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.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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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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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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’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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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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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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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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