You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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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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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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Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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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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It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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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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