You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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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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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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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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Always place your becoming above your current being.
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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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See the truth. Tell the truth.
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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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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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Don’t use language instrumentally.
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