Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSONExperience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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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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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.
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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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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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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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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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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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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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