You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
JORDAN PETERSONTerritory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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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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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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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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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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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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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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