Don’t use language instrumentally.
JORDAN PETERSONStop 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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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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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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