Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONBeauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
-
-
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
JORDAN PETERSON -
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.
JORDAN PETERSON -
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 PETERSON -
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.
JORDAN PETERSON -
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
JORDAN PETERSON -
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.
JORDAN PETERSON -
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Always place your becoming above your current being.
JORDAN PETERSON -
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
JORDAN PETERSON -
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
JORDAN PETERSON -
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
JORDAN PETERSON -
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 PETERSON