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.
JORDAN PETERSONI don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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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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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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