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 PETERSONI’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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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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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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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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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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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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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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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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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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