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.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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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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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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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. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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