Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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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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Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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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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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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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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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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