Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
JORDAN PETERSONYou must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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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.
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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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Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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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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