That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
JORDAN PETERSONTreat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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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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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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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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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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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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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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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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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Stop 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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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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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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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.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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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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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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